On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 05:45:02PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > On 28/11/2022 10:55, Dima Kogan wrote: > > Hi. I've been manually checking the merge requests, and have been > > accepting most of them. There is one thing the janitor does that I don't > > agree with, and I'd be against any automated merging of those patches. > > This is adding Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=WHATEVER). Such > > dependencies break building of the package on anything other than sid, > > and are thus unhelpful. If you can stop the janitor from making this > > change, that'd probably be good. > > Can you expand on this a bit? There are plenty of packages with B-D on > debhelper-compat (= 13) that are backported to the current stable and > oldstable releases without any changes. I _suppose_ this is their use-case: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/07/msg00304.html I short, Dima maintains apt repos for packages that are used in many distributions and setting compat as 13 or whatever breaks the build for them. But I do agree with you. In debian sid/testing/backporting pov, this does not make any difference. -- Best, Nilesh
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