Humberto Diogenes wrote:
On 02/09/2007, at 10:35, Nicolas Baradakis wrote:
It's OK for me if you decided to break compatibility with Debian Sarge, but I expect FreeRadius 2.0 to be compatible with at least Ubuntu Server LTS (Dapper).
Sorry, but it isn't as simple as putting a few numbers after the packages names in the dependencies.
Yes, I know that. I just thought it wouldn't be so hard because pre1 worked even on Sarge.
The scripts have been updated in pre2 and are now a lot better and also easier to maintain. The downside is that newer utilities are required. After reexamination the only thing I could change is downgrading dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.25) to 1.13.19 so the package may build on edgy or knoppix. As Stephen said, 1.13.19 is the minimum required version for the variable ${source:Version}. Although I couldn't test it, the other changes in dpkg-dev should not affect the freeradius package.
My goal is to provide the best possible package for the Debian users. I'm not inclined to remove the new features for Ubuntu's long-term support.
Well, if that's how it'll be done, I suggest it should be clearly stated in the docs: "Debian package creation will only work on Etch", or something like that.
No because it is just not true. The pre2 will work on all the variants of Debian that are up-to-date. The problem here is not really FreeRADIUS, it's because Ubuntu is providing to you a distribution with obsolete packages. -- Nicolas Baradakis