On 07/08/2011 12:29 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote: >> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels >> just make backporting harder for no gain. > > There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in > squeeze-backports. There's no debhelper 8 in Ubuntu Lucid and earlier, though. (FYI, debhelper 8 is already in Squeeze, you don't need bpo) > Moreover Debian packages target Sid, not (Old-) Stable, and this is > where efforts should be invested in. Moreover backports are something > optional, not a requirement for new packages, or something which should > even necessarily kept in mind when working on packages. I disagree strongly on the latter. I try to be kind to backporters, even to deriviatives (eg, regarding Lucid above: I don't even use Ubuntu), so unless there is a compelling reason to use compat level 8, I'll stick to 7. The above of course can be generalized to any package, and simplified to "unless there is a compelling reason to require version $BAR, I'll stick to $FOO" -- which I believe is only common sense. Regards, Christian
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