On 12-05-13 at 11:16am, Mike Hommey wrote: > I'm going to reintroduce unversioned libnspr4 and libnss3 for various > reasons. These packages used to exist in the Debian archive, but the > last time they were seen was in sarge. The first release *not* > including them was etch. This is quite some time ago. > > The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make the > new versions greater than these, I have to add an epoch. But do I > really need to care about making the new versions greater than these > packages last seen 4 years ago? (sarge EOL was in 2008)
For build-dependencies I care only about packages part of Debian stable, testing, unstable or experimental. For other package relations I also care about packages part of Debian oldstable. So I'd say no: caring about packages in Sarge but not newer is irrelevant IMO. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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