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Re: Backporting to Etch



On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Andrew Malcolmson <andmalc@gmail.com> wrote:

> This runs and informs me that the following dependencies are missing:
> tk8.5-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), libgpm2, python-sphinx
>
> How do I tell pbuilder that I don't need these features?

>From the source directory, run dch --bpo and edit debian/control and
remove the appropriate build-depends. Then rebuild the source package
and rebuild the package.

> Is there a better way to do a backport?  I could manually compile the
> source in an Etch chroot but I still wouldn't know which configure
> options are needed to disable the above features ('configure --help'
> doesn't show them)

No idea about that.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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