Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am preparing a package using the makefile include for quilt, which > appeared in the quilt package starting from version 0.40. Only oldstable > has an inferior version. Would there be any benefit to remove the > version number in the dependancy, or shall I keep it ?
I have a similar question about this for maintaining lintian, since currently lintian will complain about a wide variety of versioned dependencies that are necessary for proper behavior with oldstable but are no longer needed with stable. Should I just drop them? Is there benefit in retaining them? There are some fairly fundamental ones there, such as a lot of the versioned debconf dependencies and the cases where one can't use debconf-2.0 because features were introduced after that point. But if all of the stable providers of debconf-2.0 provide a feature.... -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
