Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El jueves, 14 de agosto de 2003, a las 18:23, Bob Proulx escribe: > So if I modify the control file such as to reduce the debhelper > version dependency then I also modify the version number. > > [...] > > Really any valid methodology would work. Something like this would be > fine too. As long

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:24:56PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at the list archives, I know this has been discussed before. > > I am trying to backport some packages from unstable to woody. For some > of them, I get stuck into something like a "dependencies loop", >

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 16 de agosto de 2003, a las 13:47, Travis Crump escribe: > Wouldn't it be a bug in the package if it build-depended on debhelper 4, > but didn't actually use any features not available in debhelper 3 I suppose that, of course it would. But filing bugs is free (as in beer). ;) Regards,

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-17 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 17 de agosto de 2003, a las 02:45, Rob Weir escribe: > There's a backport of debhelper 4.1.56 available from here: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main Thanks a lot. I will be trying it soon. > Make sure you check www.apt-get.org to see if someone else has

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Travis Crump wrote: > Wouldn't it be a bug in the package if it build-depended on debhelper 4, > but didn't actually use any features not available in debhelper 3[in > which case it should build-depend on debhelper 3]?[and I have debhelper > 4.1.52 and dh_shlibs isn't on my system...] Everythin

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Travis Crump
Rob Weir wrote: 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 d

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
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 debhelpe

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > I am trying to backport some packages from unstable to woody. For some > of them, I get stuck into something like a "dependencies loop", > specially debhelper. For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-14 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
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. Indeed that was what I was thinking t