Nicholas D Steeves:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20160403
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> Please backport debhelper to Jessie. Here are the issues I've
> encountered resulting from its absence:
>
> 1) lintian bpo version depends on a newer debhelper
> - lintians errors must presently be ignored
> 2) without a newer debhelper, one of the following occurs
> a) a package ignores removing explicit creation of -dbg packages
> to reduce bpo maintainance, which needlessly impedes progress to Stretch
> b) bpo maintenance becomes a needless hassle as those -dbg rules need to be
> added for each bpo release.
> 3) a bpo of Magit 2.x requires dh_elpa, thus a newer debhelper
> - the changes between Magit 1.x and 2.x make learning 1.x a waste of time
>
> I sincerely hope that the issues related to backporting libdpkg-perl
> can be overcome to make this possible, because Debian stable +
> backports is the most reliable and featureful workstation OS I've had
> the pleasure of using. Truly the best of the best.
>
> Nicholas
>
> [...]
Help welcome.
* Primary blocker for 2) being we need a new version of dpkg-dev (or
backports of selected patches to dpkg-dev)
- We can backport without this feature, but then 2) would not be
solved.
* Secondary blocker: We need newer versions of strip-nondeterminism and
dh-autoreconf.
- These are not very controversial AFAICT.
Thanks,
~Niels
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