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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Agreed.
Just bear with it for some weeks for few packages...

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, 6:10 p.m. Raphael Hertzog, <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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