Control: tags -1 - patch Am 12.09.2014 um 12:07 schrieb Iain Lane: > We got a backport request in Ubuntu for openjdk-8, with a note that > gcc-4.9 → gcc-4.8 in d/control is required. I took a look and noticed > some automagic generation, but this assumes that the release on the > machine being built for is the same as the one the package is being > prepared for. I don't think this assumption will always hold. How about > the attached approach, which uses the changelog distribution instead? A > modification might be to fall back to the old way in the UNRELEASED > case?
> Don't have a solution for the distribution variable apart from > maintaining a table mapping from release to distro, but I think that > it's less likely to be a problem in practice. I'd like to keep it this way. You usually do a test build on the target release anyway, don't you? Maybe check for a envvar TARGET_DISTRELEASE instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
