+++ Neil Williams [2011-03-04 21:25 +0000]: > xcontrol files were a useful idea but the existing files are only going > to get stale, causing build failures. > > I'm dropping support for debian/xcontrol files in embuilddeps and I'll > drop the files themselves from my own packages in Debian, if such > packages need an upload for other reasons.
Why not wait until a replacement is in place? The mechanism is still useful, and still used by cross-dependency satisfaction tools. Without xcontrol you need to use xdeb or wait for multiarch to actually be implemented. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
