On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:36:39 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in > > dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its > > debian/control and doesn't set its value explicitly can't be built > > with ancient dpkg-dev. The problem is that dpkg-dev in the > > build-essential list is dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5), which is not new enough. > > I think the build-essential list should be updated. > > This is not needed: > - updating build-essential would update it for lenny/sid only > - only oldstable (sarge) has a dpkg version that doesn't support it > > Thus fixing build-essential doesn't fix it for the only case where it's > broken, when building on sarge. > Fixing build-essential does fix it at least for my case; my machine was partially-upgraded sarge. Is versioned dependency for preventing such stupidity?
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