Re: Bug#55658: t1lib0 does not appear to be available

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:49:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > 
> > >> So it seems the sparc had a misbuild.  Can you possibly try adding a
> > >> build-depends thingie in there.  Hopefully the porters use this and
> > >> you could avoid this situation...
> > >
> > >Can you tell me how to do that or where I can find the documentation?
> > 
> > Packaging Manual, section 8.7.
> 
> Hmm. I'm not convinced that the build-depends is a good idea;
> it should use the latest version of t1lib-dev. It doesn't need version
> 1.0 -- 0.91 is just fine to compile. But 0.91 has been removed
> because it's old. Just like we are used to recompiling
> packages with the latest libc, latest libncurses, etc.
> What do you think?
> 
> I don't know what the solution is -- I did a new upload (-4) to fix
> the dependencies on i386. There needs to be a new upload to fix it on
> sparc too, but -4 didn't turn out to be it. I could upload a -5 I suppose.
> 
> Perhaps there should be an automatic source depends, along the lines
> of "at least the version installed when the source package was created."

I'm really not sure what the proper solution is.

Sparc porters, do you have any comments?  There seems to be a misbuild
of the xpdf package -- see bug#55658.

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