[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#269277: Please recognize minimum version together with pinning

[Loïc Minier]

severity 269277 normal
tags 269277 + patch
merge 269277 #390888
stop

        Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004, Andreas Barth wrote:
> in some cases, like building packages for experimental or
> backports.org, it would be nice to be able to have e.g. experimental
> and sid in the sources list with a default to sid, but that pbuilder
> would take a package from experimental if a newer version than sid is
> required; this would ensure that there is only a dependency from one
> experimental package to another from experimental if it is really
> needed.

 I didn't notice your build report earlier, so I filed #390888 which has
 a proposed patch to pull packages from experimental.  It's not specific
 to experimental and has some short-comings, but I think it already does
 better than the current experimental buildds.
   I suppose the proposed patch would also fix your bug, so I'm merging
 them; feel free to test the patch and report success or failure.
   There is a known problem with Conflicts between experimental package
 and unstable packages.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>