Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml
Jan Wagner wrote:
> On Saturday 30 January 2010 14:47:34 Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> We already provide correct build-dependencies. Here, the only missing
>> thing is that our dh_ocaml uses features from debhleper 7.1.0. The
>> package dh-ocaml do not contain only the dh_ocaml script and ocaml
>> sequence, but also some other dev-tools. I see two solutions:
>>
>> - Make dh-ocaml depend on debhelper >= 7.1.0 (the exact version that
>> introduced the desired feature). But, I'm not really convinced that this
>> is the right solution because we may use all what dh-ocaml ships but
>> dh_ocaml.
>>
>> - Make dh-ocaml conflicts with debhelper << 7.1.0. But this solution
>> seems also wrong for the same reason I mentioned before.
>
> Sorry, I strongly disagree. I don't see any reason to not provide the correct
> versioned build-dep. You package is failing to build from source, if you need
> special versions of a package, you have to provide a correct control file.
A versioned build dependency might be needed for backports, but is
definitely not needed for packages in unstable/testing/stable.
Cheers
Luk (wearing his RM hat)
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