On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:02:11 +0100 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > > britney only considers installability, not buildability. > > Maybe it should - after all, in the phase prior to a release, the > ability to build the entire release from source *is* important. To me, > this is precisely what Britney should be able to avoid - gossip > migrated (irrespective of what happened with the unblock, this could > easily happen between releases too) in a condition that would not > build from source in testing. Actually, maybe lintian can come to the rescue here - if the Build-Depends version is higher than the shared library dependency isn't that always going to be a problem? The reverse is fine, of course, but Build-Depends >> shlibs would appear to be a problem waiting to happen. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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