Re: Backport to etch

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> > - Build-Dep on tex-common (>= 1.7)
>> > 	if I make a package tex-common 1.7~bpo.1 then I have to adjust
>> > 	all the build deps to get it right, this is stupid ...?
>> 
>> Unfortunalely, yes. One way around that would be to use versioned
>> depends such as (>= 1.7~bpo) instead of (>= 1.7) in unstable, even if
>
> Baehhhhh, no.
>
>> you don't have backported the package yet. This works fine since
>> 1.7 >= 1.7~bpo, but I admit it is slightly ugly.
>
> Only "slightly"?

Vorschlag zur Güte:

- I add some remarks on finding correct texlive dependencies, 

- and on the disappearance of teTeX to the Policy document, 

then we upload 1.8 to unstable, so that you can backport as
1.8~etch.preining?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)