[SCM] libshout/master: Introduce MultiArch support.

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Thu Jan 12 14:45:19 UTC 2012


On 12-01-12 at 03:08pm, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > You miss the point:  If not backwards compatible, then package must 
> > tighten build-dependency.
> >
> > Better is to make it backwards-compatible, by resolving the path in 
> > debian/rules instead using the $...MULTIPATH variable already used 
> > there which resolves to nothing on older systems.
> 
> That's backward-compatibility: to make a backport of this revision, 
> reverting the above commit would be the only needed change.

Do you seriously not get my point, or are we playing some kind of game 
here?

FTBFS using official-but-not-up-to-date Debian packages is a bug.  Not 
an RC bug, but still a bug.


 - Jonas

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