Le Wednesday 30 July 2008 23:57:44 Marc Haber, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper. > > > > I think this is bad advice. > > I agree. There are people building Debian packages on older releases, > and having a package fail because a known versioned dependency had its > version removed it a disservice to those people. > > I might be missing arguments for removing the version, but I have only > been a DD for like seven years.
Well, while I wouldn't ask to remove a versioned build-dep, you could also argue with your reasoning that all build-dep should be versioned.. I think a relatively safe requirement is to version if it needs more than the current stable (or perhaps oldstable) version. Romain -- I've got to get away from here This is not a place for me to stay I've got to take my family We'll find a quiet place -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
