[debhelper-devel] `dh --with autotools_dev` and `dh_update_autotools_config`

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2017, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Tue, 01 Aug 2017, Niels Thykier wrote:
> >> I have offered to manage the deprecation and eventual removal of the
> >> autotools-dev related debhelper tools + sequence if we were to go down
> >> that route.  However, as mentioned, I have not heard from Henrique, so I
> >> do not know if that is the way we will go.
> > 
> > Can you send me the detailed plan?  I don't have anything against
> > deprecating the autotools-dev debhelper tools and sequence, as long as
> > we don't break anything that currently relies on them.
> > 
> 
> Certainly.  My plan is basically:
> 
>  1) Have the autotools-dev dh_* tools + sequence call
>     deprecated_functionality (from Dh_Lib) and set compat 11 as
>     the compat level removing the functionality[1].
> 
>  2) Have debhelper document this in the upgrade notes for compat 11.
> 
>  3) Have lintian emit tags for usage of the debhelper functionality from
>     autotools-dev.
> 
>  4) Wait until the compat level is retired from debhelper.  This is
>     measured in at least 3 Debian releases for compat 11 (including
>     "buster") plus a 1 year more[2].
> 
>  5) Remove the tools from autotools-dev

Looks good.  Let's implement it :-)

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh