* Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> [2013-03-26 08:37:05 CET]: > Apparently I accidentally sent this off-list first... oops :-) > > ----- Forwarded message from Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> ----- > > On 21-03-13 17:43, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Also, I'm not 100% convinced that wheezy should ship with dch doing > > backports to wheezy. This somehow doesn't make that much sense to me. > > It does make it harder to have "automatic" backports (where that makes > sense) by doing a "dget foo.dsc; <unpack, cd into source>; dch --bpo > 'recompile for stable'; debuild". In that light, it makes a lot more > sense to me than to have the dch in stable (with --bpo) default to > building for oldstable...
Actually, thinking about it, depending on some default in dch for doing "automatic" backports is quite prone to errors. I strongly suggest to explicitly use the -l and -D switches to dch in these cases to specify what you target at, and that doesn't make it any harder, honestly. Enjoy, Rhonda -- Fühlst du dich mutlos, fass endlich Mut, los | Fühlst du dich hilflos, geh raus und hilf, los | Wir sind Helden Fühlst du dich machtlos, geh raus und mach, los | 23.55: Alles auf Anfang Fühlst du dich haltlos, such Halt und lass los | _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
