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Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?



On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:31:23PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > So it'll potentially create different binaries with the same version
> > number on the different platforms.  Hmm.  Why not just go with the
> > potato version?  It should work fine on unstable.
> 
> I don't package for potato, only for unstable. The version in potato is very
> old, and upstream did 2 releases since then (1 major and 1 minor). The reason
> for this question, was that someone wanted to build unofficial potato packages
> out of my source package for unstable. It caused some problems because i was
> depending on tcl/tk 8.3, while potato only has tcl/tk 8.2.

Yeesh.  Sounds yucky.  If that's the need, I would be tempted to make
a variant .diff.gz just for potato.

   Julian

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