-=| 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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