severity 508772 important
thanks

Santiago Vila wrote:
> Please tell me a SINGLE example of package which "breaks" because of this,

openoffice.org

> and I'll reconsider the severity. Otherwise this is just theory and not
> a real problem, and you are abusing the BTS. Stop doing that.

I did. And no, I am not abusing the BTS. You cause a wrong /etc/debian_version
in sid. That's a bug *IN SID*, regardless of what you might think or not.

> It has been always a good programming practice that ./configure scripts
> check for things based on features actually present in the build machine,
> not on the operating system or its version number. This is the reason
> I would consider broken a package which relies on /etc/debian_version.

In no way I did talk about configure scripts. I talked about ./configure
*arguments*

[...]
DISTREL := $(shell lsb_release -cs)
[...]
ifeq "$(DISTREL)" "lenny"
 LENNY_BACKPORT=y
endif
[...]
ifeq "$(LENNY_BACKPORT)" "y"
  USE_SYSTEM_LUCENE=n
  MONO_MINVER= (>= 1.2.3)
  MONO2=n
endif
[...]
  ifeq "$(USE_SYSTEM_LUCENE)" "y"
        BUILD_DEPS += , liblucene2-java (>= 2.3.2) [$(OOO_JAVA_ARCHS)]
        LUCENE_DEPENDS = liblucene2-java (>= 2.3.2)
        CONFIGURE_FLAGS += --with-system-lucene 
--with-lucene-core-jar=/usr/share/java/lucene-core.jar 
--with-lucene-analyzers-jar=/usr/share/java/lucene-analyzers.jar
  endif
[...]
-> resulting in changed build-deps and package contents.

> You insist that lsb-release should tell the "truth" at every time.
> However, it has been the case for a long time that /etc/debian_version
> says testing/unstable or lenny/sid. Do you realize that /tc/debian_version
> may not always tell the "truth" or not?

As long as testing isn't frozen I don't care, packages get  built in sid
anyway. And I think your upload timing is right EXCEPT that you should have
done that via tpu and not do "5.0" on sid.

Grüße/Regards,

René
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