> Le 07/10/2013 18:04, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 04:56:24PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > >> Le 06/10/2013 12:12, Sergey B Kirpichev a écrit : > >>> Simple patch attached. > >>> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), pkg-php-tools > >>> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), pkg-php-tools (>= 1.6) > >> > >> I fail to understand why a versionned dependency would be useful or even> > >> >> wanted, could you please elaborate? > > > > To simplify e.g. backporting. > > Since only pkg-php-tools 0.8 is in the current stable, it would make it > harder to backport packages build-depending on pkg-php-tools, so such > versionned dependency should only be added if really needed.
Until someone provide pkg-php-tools's backport (for version >= 1.6) - is's almost useless, yes. > I still fail to understand your point, could you please elaborate? Why not fix things right now? Why not instruct people to use versioned dependencies as it's supposed to do? > Why 1.6 in the first place? PECL packages support was introduced in 1.5 (experimental) and appears in unstable in 1.6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org