Re: backport of dpkg (>= 1.17.2) and apt (>= 0.9.16.1) for build profiles
- To: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>, debian-backports@lists.debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, deity@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: backport of dpkg (>= 1.17.2) and apt (>= 0.9.16.1) for build profiles
- From: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:19:38 +0200
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Hi,
Quoting Philipp Kern (2014-07-24 00:25:41)
> so I think this would rather be a question for stable, than for backports?
Maybe. We'd be equally (if not more) happy if SRM would reconsider their
decision (expressed on #debian-release toward Helmut Grohne) that these patches
are too intrusive for a stable update.
> As I understand it, if this backport is in, and packages in the archive can
> hence be modified to incorporate the new syntax, stable tooling will no
> longer work with them?
That is correct.
cheers, josch
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