Frank Küster wrote:
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:In effect, if you're building unstable packages on stable, the first thing you should build is unstable's build-essential.Are you kidding? Well, this is okay if we're talking only about added packages or higher versioned depends. But you can't mean "backport all packages in build-essential in the versions in unstable" - that would mean backporting libc6, and then it wouldn't be a backport any more.
No, he means backport the packages referenced by build-essential so you can satisfy its dependencies. So if build-essential depends: dephelper >= 3, and debhelper 4's in unstable, you should only need to make sure you've got a version >= 3.
Cheers, aj