On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 04:59:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Wouldn't it be much easier and less confusing to users to copy the > relevant headers into the packages that need them to build?
Probably. But that's a politics decision. I only want my backports to work, and I prefer not spending entire working days for a single backport ;) > This has the > added advantage of being what you're supposed to do anyway, but it > should be easy enough to do that in a backport ... The problem is that my experience shows that a backport works best the less you have changed in the packages. Additionally, huge backport patches make it harder to backport later versions. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29