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Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete



Gergely Nagy schrieb am Sonntag, den 27. November 2011:

Hi,

> > Recently [1], dpatch's maintainer uploaded a new version indicating
> > that dpatch is now deprecated.  Following that, he filed a bug [2] so
> > that lintian might warn that dpatch's makefile has been deprecated
> > since 2003, and that dpatch itself is now deprecated.  However, he
> > also stated that he plans to keep dpatch for wheezy.
> 
> Just for the record, to reiterate what I have said previously[1], dpatch
> will be kept around until it can be removed safely: when all reverse
> build-depends have been migrated to something else.
> 
>  [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00380.html
> 
> That certainly won't happen before wheezy, and is unlikely to happen for
> wheezy+1, too. My plan still is to phase out dpatch by wheezy+2, but
> until then, it's a legacy that should be migrated away from, and must
> not be used for new packages.
Since there is no proper alternative (no quilt is not) I will continue to use
dpatch for all of my packages. If neccessary I would volunteer to take over
upstream.

So if you are just going for leftover rdeps it will probably never be
removed.

Alex


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