Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:01:40PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 05.04.2016 00:23, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >That's a behavior change for existing packages and may introduce build
> >failures for packages that assume things about the output of dh_strip. It's
> >inconsistent with the design principles of debhelper to change this behavior
> >retroactively for other compat levels, however valuable that might be.
>
> This apparently never was a "design principle" with debhelper, seen for
> example with dh_movefiles changing behaviour in compat level 3 and above,
> and only fixed recently after more than a decade.
It doesn't follow from the presence of a bug (even a design bug, even
one that really really super annoys you) that design principles aren't
in place.
In any case, doesn't that dh_movefiles bug actually prove Steve's point?
You were able to stick with the behaviour you wanted by continuing to
use an older compat level, which means that things weren't changed on
you retroactively.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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