Re: cross-compiling Debian packages

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:35:41PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> I don't see how version string can be safely used here - because version 
> strings from original debs are already used to handle dependences. There 
> are two different dependency requirements - one that original packages 
> should have version not less than ..., and other - that dpkg-cross should 
> be fresh enough to place files inside new tree. I don't see way to use 
> single version strings to handle both things.

How about having the resulting packages have a versioned conflict with
earlier versions of dpkg-cross itself?

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