Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 02:30:02PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > When backporting libpam-mount from experimental to stable, the only change > > I needed was > > > > -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), … > > +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), … > > > > The tilde allows ~bpo versions of debhelper to satisfy the constraint. > > > > The debhelper(5) manpage suggestion has no tilde. > > Can it have a tilde? > > There is going to be no need in a few days once debhelper 11.1.6 will > finally be backported (it couldn't be done before).
Won't a similar problem happen if debhelper 12 ships around the time buster becomes stable, and so on? I have vague memories of this biting me back when wheezy was stable, but maybe I misremember. If you're confident this situation is rare enough to be ignorable, I'll defer to you :-)