On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:55:50PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Il giorno mar, 11/07/2006 alle 13.21 +0200, Robert Millan [ackstorm] ha > scritto: > > Hi Michael, > > Hi Robert, > > > My report was a request to relax build-dependencies in order to facilitate > > backports: > > > > -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), libsnmp9-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev, > > libpq-dev, libldap2-dev > > +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libsnmp9-dev | libsnmp-dev, > > libmysqlclient15-dev | libmysqlclient14-dev, libpq-dev | postgresql-dev, > > libldap2-dev > > > > rather than to create them for backports.org. We're already rolling our own > > backport of this package, with some local customisation, but it'd be nice if > > we could derive from the official package when updating it. > > I think that modifying the build-dependencies for the package which is > uploaded for etch to include the sarge dependencies is not the right > thing to do. I know that it is improbable, but the auto-builders could > link the binaries to different versions of the libraries (eg. > libmysqlclient15-dev vs. libmysqlclient14-dev) and it is not a clean > solution.
Last time I checked, sbuild implementation didn't know how to handle alternate Build-Depends. IOW, in buildds, the trailing " | libsnmp-dev" is just ignored during the build-dependency fetch. -- Robert Millan ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
