On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 07:41:21AM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > On Saturday 15 September 2001 07:29, you wrote: > > In my case it's esound-common, which in turn makes the entire gnome tree > > not installable. > > Most of the esound packages have a 'esound-common (>= ${Source-Version})' > dependency in debian/control. Is there any generic solution for the problem?
You could manually tweak debian/substvars during the build to set Source-Version to the maintainer's version. I don't think this would violate the _principle_ of a binary NMU, but I don't know if there are codified rules somewhere. -- - mdz