Marc Haber wrote:

> 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.

Mm, comments in debian/control and debian/README.source might work
as a (lousy) workaround.

> A normal depends would serve fine as a warning.

A normal depends would be dangerous and tricky, e.g.  because
backporters won't think to upgrade it to a pre-depends.  I'll ping
-devel again.

Regards,
Jonathan



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