Re: Plan for backporting Inkscape 1.0 in buster?

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:14 pm, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> 
wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2020, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
> >  Only if you use debhelper-compat = 13 (which is only very recent). 
> > If
> >  you use debhelper-compat = 12, it will choose debhelper 12.1.1 from
> >  stable and will fail in cases like this.
>
> If you use debhelper-compat = 12 you can get debhelper 12.0, but 
> that’s
> also true for unstable. If you use a newer functionality, you must use
> both (debhelper-compat (= 12), debhelper (>= 12.9~)) like I did where 
> I
> wanted the execute_{before,after}_* targets and/or -Snone.
>
> But, again, this is not backports-specific and also belongs into sid.

No, it does not affect sid. It will take latest version available in 
sid, but which is not the case of backports if the version requirement 
is satisfied in stable.

In theory, having a tighter dependency is required, in practice it 
affects only backports.

Though the case of dwz was a bug fix not a feature.