[Pkg-e-devel] Bug#696806: ecore 1.2.0-2 fails to list recent binutils as build dependency

[Ulrik Haugen]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> stable has debhelper 8.0.0, ecore requires v9. I assume you used a
> backport debhelper. Which one? The bug is in the backport. The
> official debhelper backport

As i suspected then. I just got the source package from testing with
apt-get source and built it so the bug would be in my rebuilt debhelper
then.


> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/debhelper does not use
> the flags which are nort supported in stable's binutils.

I will look into this, perhaps it will also spare me upgrading dpkg or
whatever i did to make my ecore package multiarch.


Thank you very much for your pointers.


Best regards
/Ulrik Haugen