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Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160403
Dear maintainer,
Please backport debhelper to Jessie. Here are the issues I've
encountered resulting from its absence:
1) lintian bpo version depends on a newer debhelper
- lintians errors must presently be ignored
2) without a newer debhelper, one of the following occurs
a) a package ignores removing explicit creation of -dbg packages
to reduce bpo maintainance, which needlessly impedes progress to Stretch
b) bpo maintenance becomes a needless hassle as those -dbg rules need to be
added for each bpo release.
3) a bpo of Magit 2.x requires dh_elpa, thus a newer debhelper
- the changes between Magit 1.x and 2.x make learning 1.x a waste of time
I sincerely hope that the issues related to backporting libdpkg-perl
can be overcome to make this possible, because Debian stable +
backports is the most reliable and featureful workstation OS I've had
the pleasure of using. Truly the best of the best.
Nicholas
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 9.20160403~bpo8+1
Niels Thykier:
> Nicholas D Steeves:
>> Package: debhelper
>> Version: 9.20160403
>>
>> Dear maintainer,
>>
>> Please backport debhelper to Jessie. Here are the issues I've
>> encountered resulting from its absence:
>>
>> 1) lintian bpo version depends on a newer debhelper
>> - lintians errors must presently be ignored
>> 2) without a newer debhelper, one of the following occurs
>> a) a package ignores removing explicit creation of -dbg packages
>> to reduce bpo maintainance, which needlessly impedes progress to
>> Stretch
>> b) bpo maintenance becomes a needless hassle as those -dbg rules need to
>> be
>> added for each bpo release.
>> 3) a bpo of Magit 2.x requires dh_elpa, thus a newer debhelper
>> - the changes between Magit 1.x and 2.x make learning 1.x a waste of
>> time
>>
>> I sincerely hope that the issues related to backporting libdpkg-perl
>> can be overcome to make this possible, because Debian stable +
>> backports is the most reliable and featureful workstation OS I've had
>> the pleasure of using. Truly the best of the best.
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>> [...]
>
> Help welcome.
>
> * Primary blocker for 2) being we need a new version of dpkg-dev (or
> backports of selected patches to dpkg-dev)
> - We can backport without this feature, but then 2) would not be
> solved.
>
> * Secondary blocker: We need newer versions of strip-nondeterminism and
> dh-autoreconf.
> - These are not very controversial AFAICT.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>
>
>
>
>
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