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81 Le Wednesday 30 July 2008 23:57:44 Marc Haber, vous avez =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
82 > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
83 > > Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com> writes:
84 > > > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper.
86 > > I think this is bad advice.
88 > I agree. There are people building Debian packages on older releases,
89 > and having a package fail because a known versioned dependency had its
90 > version removed it a disservice to those people.
92 > I might be missing arguments for removing the version, but I have only
93 > been a DD for like seven years.
95 Well, while I wouldn't ask to remove a versioned build-dep,
96 you could also argue with your reasoning that all build-dep
99 I think a relatively safe requirement is to version if it needs more than
100 the current stable (or perhaps oldstable) version.
105 I've got to get away from here
106 This is not a place for me to stay
107 I've got to take my family
108 We'll find a quiet place
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