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Re: Which version of Lintian should bullseye-backports target?



Hi Nicholas, 

> I've been wanting to backport Calibre for a while now.  Unfortunately,
> it's targeting Lintian 2.114.0 which soon will not have migrated for
> almost half a year, IIRC the 2.114.0 format overrides are not compatible
> with 2.111.0, and certainly not 2.104.0...so what is an acceptable way
> to proceed?
> 
> I feel like it doesn't make sense, in terms of a good use of developer
> time, to maintain a delta between testing and bullseye-backports
> exclusively to accommodate Lintian's failure to migrate, and I hope you
> will agree.
> 
> The overrides are for Lintian Warnings, so the issue is meaningful, I
> think ;)
its easy: fixing any linitan warnings are not part of backporting a package. Therefore you don't
have to care about them.

Alex

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