building for multiple releases

[Monty Taylor]

Yes, this makes perfect sense. Thanks!

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Monty,
> 
> Monty Taylor [2007-08-06 17:46 -0700]:
>> Is there (or can there be) any magical way to indicate more than one
>> release that a source package should be built for? 
> 
> This was indeed possible in Debian by having several targets in the
> changelog in the past. However, we do not do that in Ubuntu because it
> is not compatible with the "pool" archive structure, where all
> releases share the same version number namespace.
> 
> You cannot build the same version of binaries in three different
> releases, since it results in one and the same .deb file name. And
> just building it on the oldest release is likely to break library
> dependencies, SONAME transitions, etc.
> 
> Martin
>