Bug#843409: dose-builddebcheck --deb-triplettable needs to move to tupletable

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

Hi Josch,

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:56:51 +0100 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> > dose-builddebcheck has a built-in architecture table and allows
> > replacing that by supplying --deb-triplettable. Unfortunately, the
> > triplettable and its format disappeared from Debian with the dpkg
> > 1.18.11 upload. Now the file is called "tupletable" and has a different
> > format (and a versioned format). Thus it is no longer possible to
> > replace dose's internal architecture mapping.
> 
> what do you say? Should we bump this bug to severity serious because
> triplettables are completely abandoned in Stretch and the functionality will
> thus be useless?

Please don't, it will kick dose out of stretch unless you can fix it rapidly.
Severity=serious is not justified since the bug concerns IMHO only a very
limited number of users.

Maybe we can ask Helmut to provide a patch?

-Ralf.