Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-21 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:12:44 +0900, "Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious why you are using sarge? Any particular reason or just intertia? > Just inertia; I forgot to buy etch DVDs. (I don't have enough bandwidth to do apt-get upgrade without DVDs.) -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-21 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:26:31 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do our best to support partial upgrades, but supporting compilation > of (testing/unstable) packages on machines which are running a partially > upgraded olstable is not something we target. > I read the policy aga

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > This is not needed: > > - updating build-essential would update it for lenny/sid only > > - only oldstable (sarge) has a dpkg version that doesn't support it > > > > Thus fixing build-essential doesn't fix it for the only case where it's > > broken, whe

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixing build-essential does fix it at least for my case; my machine > was partially-upgraded sarge. Is versioned dependency for preventing > such stupidity? I'm curious why you are using sarge? Any particular reason or

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-20 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:36:39 +0100, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in > > dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its > > debian/control and doesn't set its val

Re: source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in > dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its > debian/control and doesn't set its value explicitly can't be built > with ancient dpkg-dev. The problem is that dpkg-dev in t

source:Version and ancient dpkg-dev

2008-03-18 Thread Oohara Yuuma
According to the changelog, substvars source:Version is added in dpkg-dev 1.13.19. A package which uses source:Version in its debian/control and doesn't set its value explicitly can't be built with ancient dpkg-dev. The problem is that dpkg-dev in the build-essential list is dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5),