Bug#669403: iceweasel: Build-Dependency on libffi-dev needs a higher version

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Apr 20 07:19:35 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 10.0.3esr-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It appears the build-dependency on libffi-dev should require some version
> later than 3.0.9-3 (squeeze).  Current testing has 3.0.10-3 which is good
> enough.  I guess it'd be a waste of time to research which particular
> version in between is required, so blindly setting it to >= 3.0.10~ or
> >= 3.0.10-3~ should be ok.
> 
> Thus, could you please bump the dependency's version?

Why? The configure script checks for >= 3.0.9, and bumping the build
dependency makes for harder backports.

Mike





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