On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made a statistic on my machine: > 1341 are '-' and 76 are '?' so less than 1% has the problem. > > More importantly, there are all binaries that have been build a long > time ago, with the exception of diffutils and rcs binaries. > > Since diffutils was uploaded the 19/01/2005 I see no explanation why > it has the problem unless the maintainer built it on top of woody. > (The gcc changes is dated Sun, 9 Nov 2003).
That's the correct explanation, yes. It has never been a bug to build a package using stable if the dependencies are compatible with the ones in testing. In this case, Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) is ok because sarge has 2.3.2.ds1-20 and libc6 is not in oldlibs. > > However, it could be that the lintian maintainer might be willing to add > > a check for this, so I'm reassigning this to lintian as a wishlist. > > Why not just rebuild diffutils on top of current sid and closing this > bug ? This has always been the recommended practice. The recommended practice has always been not to submit bug reports for things that would result in a lot of bugs being filed. That is massive bug filing, so it should be discussed first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
