Re: Build-deps on buggy packages.
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:31:34PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> But what about package foo? Should I re-upload with
> Build-Depends: bar (>= fixed-version), being nice to porters/auto-builders
> at the cost of people who might try to build my package from source on,
> say, a woody system with an earlier (and perfectly working) version of
> bar? In other words, should I use versions in Build-Depends to reflect
> source-level or packaging-level dependencies? While the former seems to
> be more appealing at first sight, how do I tell folks "but don't build
> against version x.y.z of bar because it's known to be buggy, and don't
> bother filing my bugs about it"?
'Build-Conflicts: bar (= x.y.z)'?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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