Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:54:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, that's two votes for dropping it to I. :) I'll take a closer look > at what would be involved in adding the infrastructure to keep the > warnings around at the I level for oldstable stuff. It should be easy > with debconf and

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:59:04PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > (BTW, why was 'settitle' not included in the output of the 'CAPB' command? > > Seems like it should have been?) > Because settitle support can be tested for by trying to use the command and > checking for a resu

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > (BTW, why was 'settitle' not included in the output of the 'CAPB' command? > Seems like it should have been?) Because settitle support can be tested for by trying to use the command and checking for a result code of 20. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's an 'informational' level below 'warning' in lintian, right? > Perhaps versioned deps that are only relevant to oldstable could be > dropped from W/E to I? Okay, that's two votes for dropping it to I. :) I'll take a closer look at what would b

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:09:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For background, there are numerous checks in lintian that ensure that > dependencies are sufficiently tight to guarantee features used by the > package. Off the top of my head, I know of: > * Depending on a new enough debconf to use

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'd like to get some broader input from the developer community on >> this, since this affects quite a few lintian checks. > I think the provided information is still valuable at some level (for > example it

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd like to get some broader input from the developer community on this, > since this affects quite a few lintian checks. I think the provided information is still valuable at some level (for example it could be useful to people backporting to oldstabl

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.29 > Hi. > I think that the Build-Dep checks that force a specific version of the > package to be specified should be relaxed once the minimum version is > available in stable. AIUI, it is ok to drop the version constra