Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> having worked quite a bit on "mediating" the wishes of Debian (as
> upstream) developers with those of downstream derivatives, I feel
> confident stating that many people in Debian would now welcome being
(I assume you made a significant typo --------> not)
> asked (some people would even say "bothered", I suspect) to sign off
> changes that derivatives intend to apply.Divergence in debhelper between debian derivatives results in packages that will build in distro A but not in distro B, with no indication why beyond a dh_ command being missing or not working as expected. This is severely bad for the greater Debian ecosystem, to borrow a term. I have pointed out this is a problem before, and have been roundly ignored. I have no interest in supporting distributions who introduce such problems, and no remaining tolerance for divergent changes to debhelper. > That helps, thanks. I've seen that on #debian-devel people where > interested in picking up your availability for this also for #614731, > maybe a single NMU could do? I suggest that NMU-ers use a reasonably > DELAYED/XX queue, so that you get a chance to review and, if you feel > like, comment on it before it's final. Note that if debhelper is NMUed, I will be stuck trying to maintain a package that contains code that I have decided not to have anything to do with. That could well end up being an impossible position for me to continue maintaining debhelper in Debian. -- see shy jo
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