On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:13, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:55:32AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> To suss out possible problems before making the change for real, it would >> be nice if most packages depending on tcl-dev were built against version 8.5 >> in experimental. As discussed on debian-release[1], this requires sourceful >> uploads to introduce versioned build-deps on tcl-dev, tcl, etc, since >> experimental buildds are a little fussy about where they get their >> build-deps from[2]. >> >> Rebuilding csound locally, I did not run into any problems. tclcsound >> builds fine against version 8.5, has the correct dependencies, and >> examples run okay. I did not test if sound works but it noticed my >> sound card. To all appearances, everything is fine --- nice job. :) > > I am a bit confused here: > > On one hand you tell us that the change is needed due to the switch > requiring sourceful uploads, and on the other hand you confirm that our > attempts at hardcoding versioned paths have succeeded and in fact your patch > do *not* change anything but build-dependencies. > > It seems to me that even if in the general case a sourceful upload is > needed, csound actually only needs a binNMU once Tcl defaults have changed?
Indeed, it seems like that. However, I believe what Jonathan wants is an upload to experimental, and the build dependency has to be changed to force the buildd to pick the 8.5 version. Am I correct? BTW, remember to CC the submitter when answering bug reports (BTS brokennes and blah). -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
