On 20000928T120641+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Does "consistent" mean "internally consistent" or > "consistent among all builds of that package"?
In this case: the latter. It was an explicit goal when the policy amendment was being drafted. Maybe somebody would like to rewrite it for clarity? :-) > >In that case a versioned build-dependency to debhelper is appropriate. > > Why? Isn't the above behaviour exactly what somebody building a package > on an older system would expect and want? Such a somebody should explicitly readjust the build-time dependenencies. > Otherwise, bugs should be filed > against basically everyone using unversioned debhelper > build-dependencies ... Yes. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
