[Pkg-samba-maint] News about backports

[Luk Claes]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:47 +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Steve Langasek wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:14:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Julien Cristau pointed me to the "libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev" build
>>>> dependency that should be changed to "libcupsys2-dev" for Etch, as
>>>> causing problems for some arches. I haven't thought deeper to
>>>> this..:-)
>>> This will affect official backports because they use the stock Debian buildd
>>> configuration, which requires the first branch of any or'ed build-dep to be
>>> satisfied, yes.
>> Are you sure about that, I thought it was a slightly patched sbuild.
>> It's easy enough to verify though: Christian, did you upload with the
>> above alternative build dependency? If so, it looks to build ok on the
>> unofficial buildds.
> 
> The ones I checked got libcups2-dev from bpo.

Ah, well it first tries to install the first alternative and if there is
a candidate it currently won't try anything else. I'm not sure that the
unofficial buildds don't try the second alternative if the first fails ...

Cheers

Luk