Hi! El lunes, 24 de septiembre de 2018 12:25:15 -03 Maximiliano Curia escribió: [snip] > > This is not strictly a matter of principle, but just a question of common > > sense. > Ok, let's agree that common sense is subjective here, and we just want > something team acceptable, maintainable. > > Personally, I prefer adding the version dependency as a way of showing the > upstream package requirements. That way the source package ends up being > more independant of the current Debian archive, we don't need to review all > the packages when some release is no longer being supported and if somebody > wants to do some crazy thing with the package, well, we are not working > against them. Let me suggest you a rule of thumb: if you are thinking in removing a dependency version check first if the minimum required version is available in stable. If it's not keep the relationship so backporters know from the start that they also need to backport something else. Regards, Lisandro. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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