* Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>, 2009-11-07, 20:08:
$ zgrep -A1 'fulfilable in stable'
/usr/share/doc/maint-guide/maint-guide.en.txt.gz | cut -c 6-
Please note that versioned dependencies which are fulfilable in stable
shouldn't be specified as versioned one in the "Build-depends" stanza.
Well, this is true only if you want to make backporters' life harder.
Please do the following changes:
- s/stable/oldstable/,
- s/shouldn't/don't need to/.
But what does policy and dev-ref say.
As far as I known, this topic is not covered by any of these documents.
If this text contradcts, it is bug. Otherwise, maint-guide being
introductory guide, it should talk
only basics.
Normal back port is from "unstable" to "stable".
If backporter is doing bacport to "oldstable", isn't he doing so from
"stable". Then the above practice should have no issue.
Even assuming that backports form sid to oldstable don't normally
happen, the "shouldn't" part is still wrong.
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Jakub Wilk
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