Hello Bill, On Thu, Apr 05 2018, Bill Allombert wrote: > The standard way is to have a transition period where policy allows > for both behaviour. This way, debhelper can be updated without > breaking policy and developers would have a reference for the new > behaviour. > > Then the old behaviour is deprecated. Thank you for this, Bill. This would be a good way to proceed if we are indeed able to get consensus on what the new behaviour should be. I've been pushing the debhelper route because I suspect that consensus will not be forthcoming, given what's happened when people have tried to resolve this bug before, but I'd be very glad to be proved wrong! -- Sean Whitton
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