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 Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
