Bug#184812: general: debhelper version ignored in testing migration
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:57:43PM -0500, Mike Furr wrote:
> In playing around with rebuilding all of sarge, it seems that a bunch of
> packages were wrongly migrated to testing when they declared a versioned
> build dependency on debhelper. A quick search shows at least the following
> have a build-dep on a version of debhelper greater than the one currently
> in sarge:
I seem to remember that Build-Depends aren't looked at by the testing
script, only Depends are.
This IMHO is broken behaviour, it means that testing isn't releasable at
any given moment, because some packages might be unbuildable.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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