Control: severity -1 normal

>> From: Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedec...@ugent.be>
>> To: 696199-d...@bugs.debian.org
>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:40:31 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Build-Depends autoconf 2.68
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 01:08:11AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> dh-exec fails to build on debian/stable with:
>>
>> dh-exec is not available in stable (squeeze), so there is no reason to expect
>> it to build in squeeze.

First of all, please don't close bugs opened against my packages,
unless you opened them yourself, or asked me first. I happen to agree
with the reporter, this *is* a bug, although not a serious one.

> Your package as-is cannot be backported. If there is an implicit
> dependency, it is required to be versioned explicitly in d/control
> (there are older versions of autoconf in the archive).

Not in the suites dh-exec was prepared for. Ancient versioned
dependencies are not much more than noise. However, making backporting
easier is a reasonable wish, so I'll add the explicit autoconf >= 2.68
dependency.

(That, or fix my configure to work on squeeze, if that's not too hard)

> If you do not want to upload, I can NMU your package.

I will upload a backportable version, targetting unstable. I don't
believe this issue warrants a freeze exception however, so I'm not
going to pursue that.

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