Bug#782596: RFC: possible wheezy-pu: package debhelper to address #708218 for wheezy?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:47:12PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi Stable release managers,
> 
> This is not a wheezy-pu request per se. The recent libxrender update
> through security.d.o was initially just a rebuild of libxrender
> against a fixed version of libx11. This caused #782505 ("libxrender1:
> dist-upgrade breaks on multiarch due to conflict on
> changelog.Debian.gz").
> 
> The fix for debhelper in #708218 didn't make it into wheezy so binNMUs
> in wheezy for multiarch enabled packages will have the problem.
> 
> Would it make sense to have an update of debhelper in wheezy fixing
> this issue as well?

I'd really like to see that fixed in wheezy's debhelper. It would save
us from making a dozen sourceful uploads for the MakeBigReq macro
issue. And we'll most definitely run into this again for the remaining
three years of wheezy security support.

Cheers,
        Moritz