[Pkg-icecast-devel] backporting icecast and ezstream

[Romain Beauxis]

Le Friday 18 July 2008 12:05:29 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
> >Excellent! thank you very much. I'll test tomorrow with these. Any
> >chance you can get them into backports.org? Your personal apt repo is
> >fine for my personal use and for pre-debconf testing, but I think the
> >debconf server admins want them in bpo if we are to use them for dc8.
>
> Sorry - won't do that extra work:
>
>    * Either a few helper tools needs to be backported (like I've done
>      at http://debian.jones.dk/pkg/src ) or packages needs to be
>      adjusted to use older versions of those helper tools (and tested
>      that it does not cause regressions!)

I can try to do it. If they are in your repo it should be straight forward.

>    * Backported icecast2 links against backportet libshout.  I believe
>      bpo does not allow linking against anything but Etch libraries

You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull with 
the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated, and 
cannot be simulated beforehand...


Romain