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Re: CMake 4 upload to unstable



Hi Adrian,

Am Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 01:19:24AM +0300 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> after seeing (and fixing) some of these bugs I have a question:
> 
> Is there a good reason why debhelper cannot set 
> -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 by default?

I pretty much like this idea.
 
> In practice maintainers and people like me fixing RC bugs are now
> blindly doing this (or bumping cmake_minimum_required) manually
> in hundreds of packages.
> 
> I do not know whether this would fix all of the 1k RC CMake 4 bugs,
> but I haven't seen a different FTBFS cause so far.[1]

Same here.  However, it might need a versioned depends from debhelper
when trying to backport packages - so some editing will be needed in
quite some cases anyway.
 
Kind regards
    Andreas. 

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