Re: versioned dependency on base-files

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Hello

Am 29.05.26 um 19:34 schrieb Santiago Vila:

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

I guess that when taking advantage of that by shrinking
debian/copyright files to only reference some of those texts,
that we should then declare a versioned dependency on
base-files >= 14.1, right?

Good question. I guess that would be the absolutely correct way to do
it for now, yes.

While we are at it, I would expect this not to become a "should"
immediately, to give package maintainers some time to adapt before
reporting a lot of related bugs.

It can help us for the review.

Regards


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I guess at this time it is a can. We from the dfsg team will give a hint when we review a package. It is a hint to give a chance to change it for the next upload. This is *not* a reason for reject.

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