On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 08:54:24PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > There is still the output changes produces, which might impact > (build)-rdepends, so we might need to be extra careful here (although > ps2ascii is possibly not widely used).
rather, I think very few software may be as annoying about their dependencies output as diffoscope is. And anyway it's only the testsuite of diffoscope that it is. > So this would imply changed behaviour in a stable release, and thus > need extra care to not break more (ps2ascii might not be widely used > still). Diffoscope was later been updated to only check the output of ps2ascii if the version reported was >= 9.21. I think if that output change was to happen in a stable release and I were asked to fix diffoscope, I'd just disable that one, rather the going around asking dpkg what debian revision ghostscript has… -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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