[Bug 245594] Re: Please add binNMU capabilities to Soyuz

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi,

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 14:45:58 Scott Kitterman wrote:
[..]
>
> >but don't adjust the build-dependency to require at least the transitioned
> >version. This however is bad for derivatives and gave me a hard time
>
> figuring
>
> >the correct order for earlier haskell transitions (which is now thankfully
> >fixed in debian :)).
>
> The main case I've seen is where buildd backlog is sigificantly different
> on different archs and so the toolchain may have changed sufficently that a
> later build is against the correct toolset while the earlier is not.  The
> ability to rebuild per arch would avoid additional builds on slow archs.
>
> Dependency adjustments are not always the right answer.  There are packages
> (for example) that will build and work fine with libclamav3 or 4, but we
> definitely want them built against libclamav4 in Intrepid.

Ah, good point. Thanks for clearing up.

Cheers,
    Stefan.
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