[Aptitude-devel] Bug#667793: Bug#667793: b-d not tight enough? (was: Re: ... add patch)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> retitle 667793 aptitude: FTBFS when trying to backport to squeeze
[...]
> > Indeed, but the submitter appears to be trying to build 0.6.6 in
> > squeeze anyway.
[...]
> > > The build-depends state libsigc++-2.0-dev but version 2.2.4.2-1
> > > from squeeze does not suffice, version 2.2.10-0.1 works.
[...]
> | Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> | APT prefers stable
> | APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable')
[...]
> > Which is not something I have yet investigated.  In theory, provided
> > the more recent apt libraries are used (and these build-depends
> > corrected) a backport to squeeze should be fine.
> 
> But then again, this would be an issue of an actual backport (if
> anyone wants to do that) and that's not really supported the BTS (yet).
> 
> So I'd even downgrade it to wishlist.

Have to correct myself: Severity should be at least minor as this
implies that our build-dependencies are not tight enough.

Deducing from the bug report we may need to add some ">= 2.2.10-0.1"
or similar to the libsigc++-2.0-dev build-dependency.

		Regards, Axel
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