Re: dpkg upload 1.15.8.2
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:49:48AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Actually, the strict dependencies introduced in 1.15.8.2 should have
> > been there in 1.15.8, so the fact they were missing was just a bug
> > (and a helpful one, or all the architectures would have suffered the
> > same fate :).
> >
> > I don't see why it cannot be built anymore, the only thing changed was
> > bumping a dpkg-dev Depends on dpkg, at which point the new dpkg-dev
> > (arch:all) became uninstallable because the new dpkg (arch:any) was not
> > yet available, *but* those are always installed on buildds.
>
> debhelper was not installable in a plain sid chroot. I cannot remember why but
> it even happened on the buildd, which is why I had to resort to build against
> testing.
I really don't see how this can have happened. debhelper 7.9.3 depends on
"dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.19)" and installing it doesn't force any dpkg-dev upgrade.
Cheers,
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