On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:36:48 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not always. In the past many backports have been built including perfectly >avoidable new dependencies. The volatile archive should have policy and >deb tools frozen. So no new debconf, no new ucf and so on.
In many cases, backporting other tools and libs makes backporting much easier since a lot of packages use debhelper's latest features. And debhelper has a history of using perl features that are not present in stable's perl. And no, I won't do a perl backport for new debhelper. 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
