Re: Backport to etch

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Florent,

On Die, 15 Mai 2007, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > Hi Florent, our Grand Master of the 42. order ;-)
> 
> Ewww, that must be something quite evil... ;-)

Well, a Grand Master of the 42. Order (sorry, not order) knows the
ultimate answer to life, universe, and everything, and all the other
answers of course, too.

> Call it an euphemism. But I'm sure you'd get used to it with some
> practice. ;-)

Well, for now I leave it to someone else to do the backports.org work.

> More seriouly, if you adopt a mechanism like
> 
> Depends: epiphany-browser (>= ${gnome:Version}), epiphany-browser (<< ${gnome:NextVersion})
> 
> as reported by Josselin Mouette concerning the GNOME packages, you can
> probably leverage it to automate setting the right dependencies for
> backports. I think this is worth considering.

But how are these
	${gnome:Version}
expanded?

Best wishes

Norbert

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