On 11 July 2016 at 15:37, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > A lintian check helps people to not introduce the mistake in new packages > as well whereas a bug report only helps already existing packages (but > will greatly help the conversion while lintian will not have that much > of an impact).
Speaking of lintian, what's the recommended way to make changes accommodating this transition, especially for packages for which a backport might be anticipated? If "dh-systemd" is dropped from Build-Depends (simply "debhelper (>= 9.20160709~)"), lintian complains about "--with systemd" but "dh-systemd" missing, but if one tries to do something more clever like "debhelper (>= 9.20160709~) | dh-systemd", then we get ftp-master-rejects due to missing depends on debhelper, and it feels hacky to go as far as "debhelper (>= 9.20160709~) | dh-systemd, debhelper (>= 9~)" (just to appease lintian). Apologies if resolving this is already part of what you were referring to with "a lintian check". O:) ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4