Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Adam, > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:49:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > >> So it seems the sparc had a misbuild. Can you possibly try adding a > > >> build-depends thingie in there. Hopefully the porters use this and > > >> you could avoid this situation... > > > > > >Can you tell me how to do that or where I can find the documentation? > > > > Packaging Manual, section 8.7. > > Hmm. I'm not convinced that the build-depends is a good idea; > it should use the latest version of t1lib-dev. It doesn't need version > 1.0 -- 0.91 is just fine to compile. But 0.91 has been removed > because it's old. Just like we are used to recompiling > packages with the latest libc, latest libncurses, etc. > What do you think? > > I don't know what the solution is -- I did a new upload (-4) to fix > the dependencies on i386. There needs to be a new upload to fix it on > sparc too, but -4 didn't turn out to be it. I could upload a -5 I suppose. > > Perhaps there should be an automatic source depends, along the lines > of "at least the version installed when the source package was created."
I'm really not sure what the proper solution is. Sparc porters, do you have any comments? There seems to be a misbuild of the xpdf package -- see bug#55658. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>