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Re: r35215 - /website/howto/quilt.pod



-=| Peter Pentchev, Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:43:38AM +0300 |=-
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:42:33PM -0000, dmn@users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > Author: dmn
> > Date: Mon May 11 20:42:28 2009
> > New Revision: 35215
> > 
> > URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=35215
> > Log:
> > mention quilt 0.40 is available in Lenny
> [snip]
> >  N.B. F</usr/share/quilt/quilt.make> is available since C<quilt> version 0.40.
> > -You are advised to make the quilt build-dependency versioned.
> > +This version is available since Lenny, bu if you need to backport packages
> > +using it to Etch and before, the build-dependency on C<quilt> should be
> > +versioned.
> 
> Mmm, actually even Etch currently has quilt-0.45-6 :)  That's mainly
> the reason why lots of packages outside the Perl Group have dropped
> their (>= 0.40-1) in the past year or three.  It's only Sarge and
> earlier that don't have 0.40 - Sarge has 0.39, I believe.

Right. Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed in r35234.

> The only reason I'm keeping (>= 0.40-1) in the control file of
> my personal etch-backports is to keep Etch's Lintian happy -
> the oldish version there still complains about a missing dependency,
> supposedly because Sarge was stable back then and lintian wanted to
> help backports :)
> 
> So basically, even etch-backports don't really need this dependency
> unless you want to avoid a lintian warning.

I think mentioning that would make the paragraph too heavy so 
I omitted it. Backporting requires special attention anyway :)


-- 
dam

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