Bug#944258: lintian 2.32.0~bpo9+1 in stretch-backports depends on coreutils (>= 8.30), but stretch has only 8.26-3

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 10:33 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if that means that backport is really going to appear in
> > stretch-backports.
>
> That is my reading of it too. Felix, can we drop this requirement on
> coreutils for the time being? (I'm afraid I wasn't following the
> details at the time it was introduced.)

Yes, we probably can but I would like to understand, please, why
coreutils 8.30 (which, according to Andreas Beckmann, builds cleanly
in stretch) cannot find its way into stretch-bpo.

Also, as a side note, would someone please explain why someone still
on stretch would need lintian? I am personally on stable, but most
package maintainers out there seem to track testing or the bleeding
edge, unstable.

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner