Bug#577684: please correct build dependencies
On Di, 13 Apr 2010, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >in debports.
> Yes, m68k lives in debports at the moment.
Yup.
> Excuse me, your package _says_ it depends on libpoppler >= 0.6,
> but in reality depends on libpoppler >= 0.12 – this is an outright
> lie. It merely happens to affect m68k – and backports.
The point is to make backports easier, as there are patches to support
older poppler versions included in the source package.
backports to what? 0.10 is neither in stable nor testing.
> The data in your debian/control file is wrong and ought to be
> corrected, independent of whether “only” the ports are affected.
Opinions might differ, I care for dependencies so that building in
the target distribution is possible, that's it.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force
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