Bug#334491: gnome-games: please reinstate versioned build-dependency on binutils

[Robert Bihlmeyer]

Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

>  Currently, build-dependencies don't have to be satisfied in testing,
>  but only in unstable, and buildds are tracking unstable.

It seems you are looking at this issue from the viewpoint whether it
affects testing and/or the next release.

My angle is more to not lose the information "this breaks when built with
version x.y.z of binutils". unstable and testing are not the only
recipients of a package. People back-port them to stable, or compile
them in/for various environments. While catering to that populace is
understandably not your top priority, I don't think you should make
life harder for them unless there is a need.

>  I removed the versionned build-depend because the feature is used in
>  other packages, without any build-depends, and this package was an
>  exception and couldn't migrate to testing.

Did the versioned build-depends prevent gnome-games from going into
testing? I'd understand fudging them, then.

I suspected that the only gain from dropping this information were a
few bytes of debian/control...

-- 
Robbe