[debhelper-devel] Bug#891555: Detect and warn about debhelper >= 11 instead of 11~ b-d

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Currently, there's debhelper 11~bpo9+1 in Stretch. However, mostly everyone
> build-depends on debhelper (>= 11), making it impossible to use the backported
> debhelper without fixing the debhelper version of the software to backport.
> 
> It'd be nice if Lintian was warning about this, and nicely suggesting to
> build- depend on version 11~, to allow backports.

I think it would be better to backport 11.1.4 (as 11.1.4~bpo9+1) and
forget about this. Otherwise we will be asking developers to update this
field for months if not years to come when in fact the problem will go
away in a few days/weeks.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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