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Re: Backporting debhelper



Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> I am trying to backport some packages from unstable to woody. For some 
> of them, I get stuck into something like a "dependencies loop", 
> specially debhelper.

For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version
dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version.  I
have not backported debhelper.  This process has worked pretty well so
far.

Note that I follow the lead of others and I decrement the version and
add a unique identifier.  This way when sarge releases and a sarge
update done the backported packages will be automatically upgraded to
the official Debian repository versions.  I only do this when I need
to make any modifications to the package.  If it is just a straight
recompile then I usually am lazy and I don't modify the package at
all.

Just curious, what programs are you trying to backport?  Perhaps there
can be some help on the list for them in addition to the debhelper
issues.

Bob

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