xmltooling: allowed dependencies in backports?

[Russ Allbery]

Etienne Dysli-Metref <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> writes:

> I've just hit something I don't know how to answer for xmltooling
> 1.6.0-3: it has a build dependency on libxml-security-c-dev (>= 1.7.3-3)
> which cannot be satisfied by jessie (1.7.2-3). Are packages in
> jessie-backports allowed to depend on other packages in jessie-backports
> or must they only depend on what's in jessie?

They can depend on other backported packages.  (If they couldn't, there
are a lot of things, including Shibboleth, that would be impossible to
backport.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>