On 2013-05-15 17:15, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I have a package[1] that will not transition to testing due to failed > compilation on powerpc. The problem is that the actual package requires > a fairly complete C++11 support in order to compile. I have tried to > signify this by adding "Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.7)" to the dependencies. What about Build-Depends: g++-4.7 and ./configure ... CC=gcc-4.7 CXX=g++-4.7 ? Andreas