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

Adam Borowski kilobyte at angband.pl
Fri Apr 20 08:16:20 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:19:35AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > 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.

Except it doesn't build against 3.0.9.  I deleted the build already so
quoting from memory: a #include fails on some/path/ffi.h, and works
correctly against 3.0.10.

And yeah, it was during backporting, obviously :)

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