[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Backporting of mailman 2.1.9-2

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:54:54PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:
> Hello People,
> 
> At first, I would like to thank you very much for your hard
> work for Debian project!  I'm really thankful for it,
> because your efforts are very helpful for me.
> 
> I'm writing to you, because I need to backport mailman 2.1.9-2
> for Debian 'sarge'.  I just have some successes, because
> I've been able to backport quilt and python-support packages.
> 
> I've noticed that I need testing or unstable debhelper (>= 5)
> for Build-Depends.  Of course, I don't have that version
> of debhelper, because I rather prefer pure stable environment
> and I install backports only if it's really necessary.
> 
> So my question is: do I really need newer version of debhelper?
> I fixed debian/control and debian/compat files and built
> my backport without any errors or warnings.  Do you think
> that my changes make sense and there are safe?

IIRC a backported debhelper is available from backports.org.

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl                                  The Netherlands
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