Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> writes: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:22:19 +0100 > Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org> wrote: > > > When building/uploading packages for unstable, you *must* use an > > unstable environment (including lintian). If you're running testing > > on your machine, then the build/verification should be done in an > > unstable chroot. > > I assume when you say 'unstable environment' you don't exclude the > possibility of using a backported lintian on (say) stable. You should feel free to do that, but it's not sufficient for a package that is intended to be uploaded to Debian. For such a package, you must build and test using the latest packages from Debian ‘unstable’ suite (== ‘sid’), and nothing else suffices. Tools such as ‘pbuilder’ allow you to meet this requirement using a ‘chroot(8)’ environment, so long as you still meet the “latest available packages” criterion by keeping it up to date. -- \ “The whole area of [treating source code as intellectual | `\ property] is almost assuring a customer that you are not going | _o__) to do any innovation in the future.” —Gary Barnett | Ben Finney
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