Re: dh_suidregisted and potato/sid packages
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:46:23 -0800, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> in sid packages, dh_suidregister is not allowed to be used any more.
>> However, I need my own packages mainly under potato, so I am quite
>> interested that they build under potato as well. Are there any
>> standard procedures for this, or am I left with some nasty if
>> constructs in my rules files?
>
>Um, it's not as simple as just not running dh_suidregister -- when it
>refuses to do anything in sid and tells you to read the man page, it
>really means it.
I see. So I need to actually install a chrooted sid to be able to read
the manpage. That'll take a few days until I get around doing so...
>I think making such a package that could build under either sid or potato
>would be pretty complex because you would have to add/remove conflicts
>from the control file on the fly depending on which you were building
>for.
That sounds nasty, and it probably means that backports of other
packages from sid|woody to potato are going to be awfully hard in the
future. Right?
Greetings
Marc
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