On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. Note that we've just released 0.13.18-1:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/stimfit
Oops, sorry I missed that - it must have been uploaded shortly after I
pulled down the source.
> It would be good to apply your patch upstream, but I was wondering how
> your build-depends line would affect packaging for older releases
> (wheezy and precise)? Is there a way to make this compatible across
> releases?
For wheezy-backports, wxwidgets3.0 is already backported, and I'm
intending to also provide a backport of wxpython3.0 shortly.
You can have alternates in Build-Depends, though the buildds will only
try to install the first alternative. So you could have something
like this which would work for uploads to unstable:
Build-Depends:
libwxgtk3.0-dev | libwxgtk2.8-dev,
python-wxgtk3.0 | python-wxgtk2.8,
python-wxgtk3.0-dev | python-wxgtk2.8
This would also allow you to manually install the 2.8 packages and
build, but it wouldn't work for uploading to build against 2.8 in wheezy
backports, and nothing ensures you get a matching set (e.g.
libwxgtk3.0-dev + python-wxgtk2.8 satisfies this).
The approach I'd probably take would be keep a version of debian/control
with the old BDs as something like debian/control-wx2.8, and then when
you want to backport, just copy that over debian/control.
Cheers,
Olly
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