Re: debhelper 13 (was Re: Kotlin: looking for a DD to review/upload)
On 5/7/21 5:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2021, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason to use debhelper 13? Does it have anything that
>> is relevant for java packages? Just asking because that's usually
>> something which needs to be downgraded for backports. But I assume
>> there are enough dependency requiring debhelper v13 as well ...
>
> That’s Ubuntu you’re talking about. I’m still totally annoyed for
> my PPA builds that bionic and focal don’t have debhelper 13 available.
>
> Debian backports, at least for the last 3+ years, have had reasonably
> up-to-date debhelper, as downgrading the version just for backporting
> is really undesired as backports change and hindering things in sid.
> 13~bpo10+1 has a changelog date of 27 Apr 2020…
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports if you want to contribute a
backport.
backports for stable release updates can't be used.
Matthias
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