Developing the debci on Ubuntu or Debian

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 04:44:21PM +0200, Ashkan Taslimi wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have just joined the list and recently started to play around the debci a
> bit.
> 
> I've got Debian 8 installed and tried to install dependencies such as
> ruby-foreman and etc.
> 
> I figured out that these packages are on Ubuntu and for installing them on
> Debian I should use backporting or so.

everything needed to develop debci should already be available in backports,
e.g.

$ rmadison ruby-foreman
ruby-foreman | 0.78.0-2~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | source, all
ruby-foreman | 0.78.0-3        | testing          | source, all
ruby-foreman | 0.78.0-3        | unstable         | source, all
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