[Ken Bloom] > I'm confused. One making backports from sid to woody should backport > a package in such a way that it is buildable with woody's > build-essential. Yes. Same will be true backporting to sarge. But if sarge build-essential were to be updated to contain debhelper (>= 4), that would make less work for backporters than if this same change were made only post-sarge. The point is not that one *couldn't* just make the change in etch - but that by doing it in sarge, we make life easier for the backporters. Peter
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