Re: Need advice on building a package

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:10:25PM -0800, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
>    On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John Holland <[1]jholland@vin-dit.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>      I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on
>      [2]enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working
>      pretty well for me on a couple machines.
> 
>    Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm strictly attempting to stick to
>    backporting packages from Jessie to maintain upgradability later.

Would this be useful? This would enable you to use packages built as
build-dependencies for next packages. Naturally, you should update the
build-dependencies as well to use the backported ones.

https://wiki.debian.org/PbuilderTricks#How_to_include_local_packages_in_the_build

Kumar
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