On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > be buildable inside stable and using an control field to mark the > packages that way.
Shouldn't checking if Build-Depends are satisfiable in stable be enough? And if it doesn't build that way, I'd say there's a bug in the package anyways, because it should bump some build dependencies. But I think it's more a matter of being meaningful to backport the packages, than to be possible of doing so. And if symbols files were more broadly used, I guess most packages currently in squeeze could be installed on lenny without even being rebuilt. As a side note, some packages are "easily" backportable, in the sense that they only require a few build-dependencies to be backported. This is the case for xulrunner and iceweasel, where only sqlite needs to be backported for the packages to be backportable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
