Hi Cyril! On 3/23/22 11:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> (2022-03-23): >> I have noticed that several udebs such as partman-ext3 are missing the >> Standards-Version in their debian/control [1] files. >> >> Does anyone know whether this is by design or is this an oversight? >> >> I'm asking because lintian is complaining about that when building the >> package. > > This is #991533. Given the lengthy thread it turned into, I gave up.
Thanks. That answers my question. >> Also, many of these packages are still stuck with debian/compat >> version 9. Do we want to upgrade the version to something more recent? > > Maybe. I think I'd like people who would like to look into that to: > (1) be cautious, there might be udeb-related regressions or behavorial > changes that might not have been caught earlier; > (2) maybe plan upgrading all packages, possibly not at once, but over a > small-ish time window, so that we don't stay too long with packages > with old and new compat levels, especially if it's not just about > bumping the compat level. > >> And do we want to switch to the debhelper-compat module? > > No idea at the moment, I'd have to read up some more about that part. If > that's the recommended way (according to debhelper developers) and if > that's what people expect these days, sure. OK. I'll stick to the current versions used in debian-installer and let it up to the installer team to bump these versions in the partman-hfs package. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
