On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:42:59 +1000, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: >On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:08:32PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Most sid packages have Build-Depends: debhelper 3 and DH_COMPAT=3 in >> debian/rules. > >find pool/main -type f | grep '/.*/.*.diff.gz' | > while read a; do zgrep -l DH_COMPAT=3 "$a"; done | > sed 's,/[^/]*$,,' | uniq | wc > 933 933 13697 > >find pool/main -type f | grep '/.*/.*.diff.gz' | sed 's,/[^/]*$,,' | uniq | wc > 3542 3542 49523 > >Seems a lot less than most packages.
Make that "most packages I happen to backport". I am surely only using a small fraction of Debian, because I mostly run servers that don't have X or any nifty stuff installed, but I frequently encounter packages that need debhelper 3. I am not complaining about this, though. It is good to have new stuff developed. >In any case, though, wanting new packages to be written and uploaded, >and then expecting them somehow to suddenly work on a potato box without >any backporting doesn't make any sense either. You're right. But backporting can be easy, and it can be hard. And it is quite frustrating that a basic tool like debhelper is such a beast to backport. debhelper depends on debconf-utils which is only in later debconfs. And debconf's perl scripts use a lot of perl 5.6 features like "our", and I don't think that there is any other way to get current debconf running on potato than backporting perl 5.6, which is _definetely_ something beyond my knowledge. Is it _really_ that hard to get debhelper 3 for potato? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
