On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:40:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Mar 17, 2011 at 08:37:39PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > git uses dpkg-maintscript-helper, which isn't present in lenny's dpkg. > > it should therefore have a versioned dpkg dependency. > > I'm inclined to agree, but: > > - Debian doesn't support direct lenny-to-wheezy upgrades;
I am mainly talking about backports. I lost one and a half hour building a local git backport before finding out that it was uninstallable. A versioned depends would have at least given me a heads-up. > - Policy ยง3.5 says we need a consensus on debian-devel before > adding a pre-depends, and I didn't see a clear consensus either > way. A normal depends would serve fine as a warning. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
