On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: > >For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version > >dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I > >have not backported debhelper. This process has worked pretty well so > >far.
This will (obviously) break when packages actually use features that were introduced with debhelper 4. "dh_shlibs -s" is a notable example of this, that hits a fair number of packages. > Indeed that was what I was thinking to do if nobody answered my pray. I > hope it also works for me. :) There's a backport of debhelper 4.1.56 available from here: deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main > >Just curious, what programs are you trying to backport? > > Well, indeed many of them. I am trying to backport sound applications > only available in unstable to make them available for subscribers of > my sound related mailing list that lack the > spare-time/interest/bandwidth for upgrading to sid. Specially, I am > thinking of ardour, one of those applications whose backporting seems > a mess. Make sure you check www.apt-get.org to see if someone else has done the hard work for you :-) -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: PGP Albanian cypherpunk keyhole defense information warfare
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