On Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:08:03 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
I agree with those saying that the Debian Project should strongly discourage skip upgrading.
Agreed.
However, it would be polite if upgrade handling (like Breaks/Replaces) be kept until it has shipped in both the latest Debian stable release and the latest Ubuntu LTS release.
Agreed as well.The Debian Perl Group internal policy [0] and also the code in cme/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl remove dependency versions only when they are already fulfilled in oldstable. This helps backporting or installing newer packages on older installations.
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