Re: Bug#577684: please correct build dependencies

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>]

Norbert Preining dixit:

>> The data in your debian/control file is wrong and ought to be
>> corrected, independent of whether b
>Opinions might differ, I care for dependencies so that building in
>the target distribution is possible, that's it.

However, buildds (even those of "main" architectures) are not
required to install the latest version of a dependency, if the
one they have already installed matches the debian/control line.

I fell into that trap with mksh once, which depends on libbsd,
where one of the buildds had an older version I had not realised
would not work as-is with the by-then current code.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh