Quoting Niels Thykier (2018-01-02 09:23:00) > Andrey Rahmatullin: >> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:40:38PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: >>> wouldn't it be simpler to couple debhelper dependency to >>> Standards-Version ? >> There are packages which may break with newer debhelper, but can be >> easily updated to the current policy. >> > > Also, there are packages that deliberately hold back on adopting new > debhelper compat levels because they want to be backportable as-is to > stable (even up to oldoldstable in some cases). > > That said, I do agree that a maintainer should have to care about > fewer turning wheels in debian/control than what our current packaging > design requires us to do. Maybe extend debhelper to support compat file content of "latest". Or simply treat a missing compat file as implicitly meaning "latest". - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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