[Re-sent to the list.] Hi, Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2011, 14:32 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > Hi, I (nominally) maintain Darcs in Debian. I've been completely > inactive both here and upstream, so I plan to get through the Squeeze > release (done), push the newest upstream into Sid, then file an RFA. > > Looking into the second step today, I found the s/ghc6/ghc/ in > debian/control upsets pbuilder (transcript attached), because it > ghc-foo packages are virtual. > > Presumably this change was made to pave the way for a ghc7 migration, > and backing out would be a Bad Thing. I think it'll probably work if > I change Build-Depends from > > ghc-foo (>= x.y.z~) > > to > > ghc6-foo (>= x.y.z~) | ghc-foo (>= x.y.z~) > > But this is fugly. Is there a solution that I haven't thought of? if you want to upload darcs before we finish the ghc-7 transition, just revert the changes to control and upload as ususal. After ghc-7 is in unstable, you or we can just do another upload, not mentioning ghc6 but only ghc. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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