[Build-common-hackers] Bug#725950: cdbs: allow version ranges in DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_foo

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.122
Severity: wishlist

currently DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE (and friends) take a fixed VERSION number,
which makes cdbs create a build-dependency on "automake-VERSION".

currently older versions of automake (up to 1.11) are scheduled for removal [1],
while newer versions (like automake-1.14) are not in wheezy, making backporting
of packages needlessly complicated.

i would suggest to allow ranges of the versions (e.g.
DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE_MINVERSION and ..._MAXVERSION), that would create a
versioned build-dependency on 'automaken', and call `automake` (rather than the
versioned name) during the build-process.

this also applies to the other AUTO-foo.

fgamsdr
IOhannes




[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01459.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

cdbs depends on no packages.

Versions of packages cdbs recommends:
ii  autotools-dev  20130810.1

Versions of packages cdbs suggests:
ii  devscripts  2.13.4

-- no debconf information