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Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian



Hi,

Quoting Niels Thykier (2015-04-11 09:20:36)
> On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >> Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks 
> >> for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, if 
> >> it would have been something for stretch, either A or B would have been 
> >> decided already and partly implemented, right?
> > 
> > I believe we can implement this for Stretch if we wanted to.  Unlike
> > multi-arch, build-profiles (etc.), ddebs are already supported by our
> > (14-days-from-now-new) stable release.  Namely,
> > 
> >  * All the groundwork requirements (pkg:arch dependencies etc.) are
> >    already covered by previous efforts.
> >    - I.e. everything that would require a full-cycle for support are
> >      already done in time for Jessie
> > 
> 
> Hah, I take that inside the parentheses back.  It seems that APT is
> *not* very happy with the generated "pkg:arch" dependencies.
> Fortunately, this syntax is not required for ddebs.

this might be #777760 which is fixed in apt in experimental.

cheers, josch

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