Re: Recent changes in dpkg
Joey,
first of all thanks for the data... :)
On 2010-05-27, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> I wonder if anything can be learned from debhelper's history of
> compatability levels.
>
> numpkgs compat level introduced deprecated
> 1 8 Jun 2010
You really are from the future, then. ;-)
> * After a certian point, one has to take action to get rid of the last
> few packages in the long tail. It would be pretty easy at this point
> for me to get rid of v2 and v3 entirely. But still probably not worth
> the effort, as it would only remove a few dozen lines of code from
> debhelper. The time is better spent getting rid of individual
> deprecated debhelper commands.
But then v2 and v3 support might have bitrotten and FTBFS could have been
introduced in the meantime due to the toolchain? Sometimes dropping
support for old levels might make sense if almost nobody uses it and
wouldn't notice breakage... (Not to say that this applies to debhelper
in any way...)
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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