On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 at 01:19:13PM -0400, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > > > I did not realize 3.0+ was needed. The build dependencies did not > > specify that. I might file a bug against tripwire for that build > > dependency. > > it is meant for sid, the default compiler in sid is 3.3. I suppose this is > the reason it does not need to be specified. This is what the maintainer > might tell you if you file such a bug.
It is common for woody folk to backport packages from sid/sarge to woody by compiling them use apt-get source --compile or dpkg-buildpackage. I have seen packages with build depends of libxyz (>=3.4). With few exceptions most packages that require a certain version of something to build it list that something as a build dependency (maybe a developer can help me out here....isn't it Debian policy to do so?) Therefore, in my mind, "it is mean for sid" is not an excuse to omit a build dependency. What is to say there won't be a g++2 and g++3 package in sarge when it is released? -- Phillip Hofmeister PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/key.asc | gpg --import -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
