Yes, this makes perfect sense. Thanks! Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi Monty, > > Monty Taylor [2007-08-06 17:46 -0700]: >> Is there (or can there be) any magical way to indicate more than one >> release that a source package should be built for? > > This was indeed possible in Debian by having several targets in the > changelog in the past. However, we do not do that in Ubuntu because it > is not compatible with the "pool" archive structure, where all > releases share the same version number namespace. > > You cannot build the same version of binaries in three different > releases, since it results in one and the same .deb file name. And > just building it on the oldest release is likely to break library > dependencies, SONAME transitions, etc. > > Martin >
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