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

[Loic Minier]

        Hi,

On jeu, oct 27, 2005, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 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.

 It used to work with older binutils, then was broken, then was
 repaired, but the repaired version didn't build everywhere, but we have
 a version that works for all arches in unstable.

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

 It did, and it still does, I mailed the relevant buildd maintainers 3
 times already, and I give up.  I'm not even sure they can reset that
 state, but they didn't bother replying me one way or the other.

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

 No, binutils won't migrate to testing anytime soon, and I would like
 gnome-games to migrate so that people can test it.  It's one of the
 last GNOME 2.10 packages that is blocked in unstable.

 binutils will enter testing prior to release, but we're far from that.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want it? BRAINS!"