(CCing Joey as he may have additional comments or ideas) On Tuesday 28 March 2006 16:39, you wrote: > Is there a way to do this that would allow e2fsprogs to be built > (back-ported) on Sarge (which only has debhelper 4 and wouldn't have > the dpkg build enhancements)?
Not using the --add-udeb option as the Sarge version of debhelper will error out that. One option would be to program a check for the available version of debhelper into the Makefile, but that cure sounds worse than the disease. Another option is to (temporarily) not make use of dh_makeshlibs, but to hardcode the shlibs lines (normal and udeb:) in debian/*.shlibs files. In that case you could leave the compat level and debhelper dependency unchanged until you're ready to drop the Sarge compatibility. Having the udeb: line in a shlibs control file for a Sarge package is possible. Old versions of dpkg-dev will give a message when they encounter an udeb: line they cannot parse [1], but that will not result in errors in the dependencies of the package being built. Cheers, FJP [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2005/06/msg00205.html
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