Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:31:29PM +0100, Sebastien Jodogne wrote: > ... > However, I do not know whether this is the proper way of doing > things with respect to Debian policy: When doing backporting, is it > OK for the build system to build third-party dependencies, without > backporting the third-party packages themselves?
Your feeling is correct that you should not download any third party stuff but rather also backport the preconditions. > I was not able either to find a complete "backporting handbook" for > Debian Med packages: Andreas, is there such a guide available > somewhere? I admit I'm quite lazy with backports and while I definitely think this is a reasonable task I somehow consider it "Somebody Else's Problem". I simply need to restrict my field of work. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140113123745.gc7...@an3as.eu