> If I want to build a trixie-backports package, and that must depend on > another package in backports, then being able to specify: > > dependency/trixie-backports > > with or without a version and have apt build-dep install from backports, > seems less of a burden than just specifying the version and forcing the > person building the package to work out what to do to build it.
Presumably you say "must depend on another package in backports" because you've discovered that the version of that other package in Trixie is too old, and that version in backports is not. Along the way, you have most likely seen both version numbers, so "work out what to do to build it" doesn't seem like it would be much trouble. IOW, I must be missing something. === Stefan
