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

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Hi Michael,

what is your opinion on a backport of coreutils 8.30-3 to stretch?
Background: lintian recently bumped the dependency to coreutils (>=
8.30) because it uses some newer feature, breaking its backport to
stretch. (#944258)

I could build it on stretch(+stretch-backports?) without needing to do
any changes to the package and I'm running this on a single machine
(running stretch with a selected set of packages from backports, buster
and sid) without having encountered problems so far.

But I'd prefer not to take the responsibility of doing an official
backport of a core package like coreutils. IMO this would be better done
by you (as coreutils maintainer) or the lintian maintainers (since this
is needed for the lintian backport).


Andreas