Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
I would keep the versioned dependency as long as there is a inferrior version available on the mirrors. And I think lintian should not complain about suche a dependency. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
