Nicholas D Steeves: > Package: debhelper > Version: 9.20160403 > > Dear maintainer, > > Please backport debhelper to Jessie. Here are the issues I've > encountered resulting from its absence: > > 1) lintian bpo version depends on a newer debhelper > - lintians errors must presently be ignored > 2) without a newer debhelper, one of the following occurs > a) a package ignores removing explicit creation of -dbg packages > to reduce bpo maintainance, which needlessly impedes progress to > Stretch > b) bpo maintenance becomes a needless hassle as those -dbg rules need to > be > added for each bpo release. > 3) a bpo of Magit 2.x requires dh_elpa, thus a newer debhelper > - the changes between Magit 1.x and 2.x make learning 1.x a waste of time > > I sincerely hope that the issues related to backporting libdpkg-perl > can be overcome to make this possible, because Debian stable + > backports is the most reliable and featureful workstation OS I've had > the pleasure of using. Truly the best of the best. > > Nicholas > > [...]
Help welcome.
* Primary blocker for 2) being we need a new version of dpkg-dev (or
backports of selected patches to dpkg-dev)
- We can backport without this feature, but then 2) would not be
solved.
* Secondary blocker: We need newer versions of strip-nondeterminism and
dh-autoreconf.
- These are not very controversial AFAICT.
Thanks,
~Niels
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