On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > 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?
Versioned dependency from what on what? I doubt you have a build-essential coming from lenny/sid on your sarge machine. In all other cases, we come back to my previous explanation. We do our best to support partial upgrades, but supporting compilation of (testing/unstable) packages on machines which are running a partially upgraded olstable is not something we target. Ideally the package maintainer has added a versioned build-dependency on the dpkg-dev when he started using ${source:Version} but we typically tend to drop such versioned dependencies when they concern oldstable only. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]