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On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 01:09:06AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>...
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:05:28 -0400
> From: Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org>
> To: 902573-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: firefox-esr: firefox 60.1.0esr requires nss >= 3.36.4
>
> It is not guaranteed for you to be able to build a package that you
> found in experimental (now in unstable) on a machine running Debian
> stable.
>...
This is actually supposed to work, and also required for usecases like
the official Debian backports[1].
We do not have automated testing setup for testing this,
but when such insufficient version constraints in build
dependencies are found they do get fixed.
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha
cu
Adrian
[1] backports are not relevant for the exceptional case of firefox-esr
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