Re: ${shlibs:Depends} - What is it?
> > I have been working on a particular package on my workstation, which runs
> > Sid. Now, I was some days away from my office, and had only my laptop
> > (Potato). As my package is not too complicated, I decided to modify it to
> > be built with Potato successfully - As I guessed, it was fairly easy...
> > The first question of this message is if you notice anything wrong. I am
> > working with debhelper... The changes I did were:
> >
> > - In control, I decreased the standards-version from 3.5.2 to 3.0.1
>
> My question may be stupid, but is it really useful to decrease the
> stardards-version ? I know that potato's lintian issues a warning for
> "newer-standards-version", but it sounds rather pointless when
> backporting a package from unstable.
>
> Am I wrong ?
You may be right - I just wanted to make sure this worked in Potato.
I desisted from doing it this way - I got convinced to stick with
Sid/Woody, as this package will never natively go into potato and many
changes have entered the Debian Policy since then.
Thanks again.
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