Re: binNMUing packages from unstable into experimental

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 20:28:12 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 22:59:22 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Joachim Breitner, le Fri 14 Sep 2012 22:44:54 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Is it possible to have the build daemons to create binNMU
> > > builds of a source that lives in unstable, but put the binaries into
> > > experimental? If not, what would it take to implement that?
> > 
> > I guess you mean that the package will have to be rebuilt against some
> > other experimental haskell package. You will need to bump the dep
> > version to get that effect anyway (otherwise the dep resolver prefers
> > unstable packages), so you'll have to do a source upload to experimental
> > anyway.
> > 
> extra-depends in wb can take care of that bit actually.

Ah, right.

wanna-build however doesn't seem to like a binNMU in experimental if
there's no version there already. Anybody knows a workaround?

Samuel