* Frank Küster | That's correct from the point of view of a buildd, or of a developer | running a sid machine. But it is not correct for backporters: Imagine | that packages are added to build-essential, or versioned dependencies in | it are bumped to a higher version number. Then a package without | Build-Dependencies, or with Build-Dependencies that can be fulfilled in | stable, might still not build in a stable environment.
Which is why build-essential in sarge would be updated to depend on debhelper now, so packages in etch could get rid of debhelper build-deps. People backporting from unstable to oldstable are on their own, but I think that's ok and not a very interesting use-case. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]