> > I have been working on a particular package on my workstation, which runs > > Sid. Now, I was some days away from my office, and had only my laptop > > (Potato). As my package is not too complicated, I decided to modify it to > > be built with Potato successfully - As I guessed, it was fairly easy... > > The first question of this message is if you notice anything wrong. I am > > working with debhelper... The changes I did were: > > > > - In control, I decreased the standards-version from 3.5.2 to 3.0.1 > > My question may be stupid, but is it really useful to decrease the > stardards-version ? I know that potato's lintian issues a warning for > "newer-standards-version", but it sounds rather pointless when > backporting a package from unstable. > > Am I wrong ?
You may be right - I just wanted to make sure this worked in Potato. I desisted from doing it this way - I got convinced to stick with Sid/Woody, as this package will never natively go into potato and many changes have entered the Debian Policy since then. Thanks again. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-1118 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
