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Re: gem2deb stable-bpo problem



On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 03:11:19PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 02.05.2020, 14:12 +0900 schrieb Marc Dequènes (duck):
> > Quack,
> > 
> > If I rebuild redmine using gem2deb >= 1 I end-up with this error:
> >   gem2deb-test-runner : Breaks: ruby-mime-types (< 3.3.1-1~) but 3.2.2-1 
> > is to be installed
> 
> You are IMHO doing something forbidden or at least discouraged. Packages for
> backports should be built with packages in stable only. Other backports should
> usually not be required. Definietely not for building the package! To be
> correct: My last information was, that this is a requirement. The backports
> page now reads, that this is highly discouraged and only allowed in a few
> cases.
> 
> https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index3h2
> 
> Second and last point. gem2deb IMHO doesn't seem to fit these requirements. Its
> backport also should not contain the specific change for the unstable-testing
> migration.

Backporting toolchain packages in general is usually a bad idea. In
particular I object to backporting gem2deb at all.

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