Bug#1115177: lintian: warns about latest host (dev) tools API available in stable
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025, Nilesh Patra wrote:
>Packages with d/watch v5 will not enter stable. At best, they can
Yes, but they are going to be DEVELOPED by people running stable¹,
and their upstream info is going to be CHECKED by a service running
on a system running stable, possibly even old*stable. Gah!
① This is perfectly fine since we build in chroots anyway and can
do the testing also in those chroots or special test VMs.
>will stop engaging in this bug report further as the discussion here
>is mostly done IMO.
…
I’ve literally got no response suitable to that.
Anyway, some people may get cross if uscan(1) will start throwing
errors soon but…
bye,
//mirabilos
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15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)
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