Jeremy Bícha:
Source: debhelper
Version: 13.15.3
Do you intend to mark debhelper 14 as stable in time for the next
major Debian stable release (Debian 13 "Trixie")?
There are interesting features and improvements in compat 14 that I
would like to use in my packages but I hesitate because as long as 14
is open for development, there is a risk that changes could cause
packages to fail to build.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
Depends on whether there are more things that need changing, whether I
feel the existing changes have been tested sufficiently, and that the
Debian tooling is ready for it (such as lintian and lintian-brush).
As an example, until #1067653 is fixed, then lintian will give
contradicting advice to one of the compat 14 changes, which I consider
"not very nice". Especially not if lintian-brush will then "auto-fix" it
favor of lintian's world view.
If you want compat 14 sooner, consider:
1) testing compat 14 works as intended on a subset of your packages if
you have any where a bit of instability is an acceptable risk (or
do it in experimental only)
2) try out how other tools such as lintian and lintian-brush react and
report any issues there.
Best regards,
Niels
