Recent version of dpkg-maintscript-helper needed for BPO
Hi,
Currently, /usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper is a part of dpkg. However,
I don't think this is nice for backports. Let's say a package needs to
use dir_to_symlink which was introduced in 1.17.2 according the the
changelog, and only working since 1.17.5, then that said package can't
be backported easily. (this is a real life example here, though I don't
think it's necessary to tell which package I'm talking about)
Backporting the full of dpkg itself isn't needed, and would be annoying
to do and maintain.
The only solution I have currently have would be embedding my own copy
of dir_to_symlink in my package, which I really would like to avoid (do
I need to explain why this is very ugly?).
So I wonder, could dpkg-maintscript-helper be in another source package
than dpkg, so that it could be easily backported?
It'd be nice to have the dpkg maintainers opinion.
Thoughts anyone?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
P.S: I'm registered to the BPO list, but not the dpkg one. No need to Cc
me if both list are kept as To:.
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