Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:29:33PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> Is the problem that you use apt-get to install the current version, and >> then check what you got? Because you can't tell apt-get to install >> at least version X else fail? > > Yes, that's how it works currently. > > Since this also makes autobuilding experimental harder, work is being > done to use ``apt-cache policy'' output to determine whether the right > version of a package is available and break off if not, but it's still > got some bugs (including situations where the build is broken off > because sbuild (incorrectly) thinks the right version of a package isn't > available).
apt-get build-dep should be improved to be buildd useable instead. It's is wastefull to have two seperate and differently buggy implementations floating around. Improving apt-get instead of sbuild since that is already doing a better job at detecting missing things and since users use it too. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]