Jan Wagner wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010 14:47:34 Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> We already provide correct build-dependencies. Here, the only missing >> thing is that our dh_ocaml uses features from debhleper 7.1.0. The >> package dh-ocaml do not contain only the dh_ocaml script and ocaml >> sequence, but also some other dev-tools. I see two solutions: >> >> - Make dh-ocaml depend on debhelper >= 7.1.0 (the exact version that >> introduced the desired feature). But, I'm not really convinced that this >> is the right solution because we may use all what dh-ocaml ships but >> dh_ocaml. >> >> - Make dh-ocaml conflicts with debhelper << 7.1.0. But this solution >> seems also wrong for the same reason I mentioned before. > > Sorry, I strongly disagree. I don't see any reason to not provide the correct > versioned build-dep. You package is failing to build from source, if you need > special versions of a package, you have to provide a correct control file. A versioned build dependency might be needed for backports, but is definitely not needed for packages in unstable/testing/stable. Cheers Luk (wearing his RM hat) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
