severity 744275 wishlist retitle 744275 adapt (build-)deps to allow no-fuzz backports thanks
> As can easily be checked, biber 1.8 build depends on Perl 5.16, not > 5.14, as listed in the build dependencies (see below). [...] > Additionally, biber has a runtime dependency on Perl 5.16 as well, not > just perl, as listed in the runtime dependencies (see below). And, what is the problem? I am building packages that are targetted for the *NEXT* stable release, that is for testing and unstable. We often have requirements not listed if they are not necessary for the current unstable/testing status. In this case, both unstable and testing contains perl 5.18, which makes *all* dependencies unnecessary, because they are automatically fulfilled. > Both these facts become obvious if you try to build or run biber 1.8 > on Debian wheezy, which has Perl 5.14. Which you can yo, and that is release 0.9.9+release-1 from Debian/stable. > Installng the biber binary from unstable on wheezy succeeds, but this Which is not a supported usage in Debian. There is no bug here. Just abuse of the system. > Similarly, the build dependencies are satisfied on wheezy, but trying > to build it produces immediate complaints as follows: Again, this is called "backporting" and requires adaption of build dependencies. I lower the severity to wishlist. *I* will not go through all the other packages and check which one are available in stable ... All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
