I'd really like to see xletters go to a good home. I mentioned last
month there's a good chance Debian would be better off switching
upstreams to one that supports Unicode (see #798004) and today I just
received this. As our own kids have not used this software since longer
ago than when I last did anything for this package, I'd like to put one
last call here, to the Debian Jr. and Edu lists before I simply orphan
the package. I hope someone new would like to bring new energy to
looking after what was certainly a favourite of my kids when they were
very young.
Please contact me if you would like to take over xletters.
Thanks,
Ben
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Bug#800238: xletters: Please migrate a supported debhelper
compat level
Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:52:44 +0000
Resent-From: ni...@thykier.net
Resent-To: Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:35:06 +0200
From: ni...@thykier.net
Reply-To: ni...@thykier.net, 800238-mainto...@bugs.debian.org
To: mainto...@bugs.debian.org
Source: xletters
Severity: important
Usertags: deprecated-debhelper-compat-leq-3
Hi,
The package xletters is using a debhelper compat level of 3 or less
according to lintian. These compat levels have been deprecated for
the past ~10 years and debhelper will remove support for them in the near
future (as declared in [1]).
* Please migrate the package to a supported debhelper compat level.
- Compat 9 is recommended
- Compat 5 is the bare minimum (compat 4 will be removed soon as
well)
* If your package uses any of the following tools, please remove them
from the rules files. Neither of them does anything except warn
about their deprecation.
- dh_desktop
- dh_scrollkeeper (deadline: January 1st 2016)
- dh_suidregister
- dh_undocumented
* Please note that your package might have been flagged for using
e.g. "DH_COMPAT=2 dh_foo ...".
- This will still cause issues when the compat level is removed.
* If the package has been relying on dh_install being lenient about
missing files, please see "MIGRATING TO COMPAT 5 OR LATER" in [1].
* Deadline:
- compat 1+2: November 1st 2015
- compat 3: January 1st 2016
If you are using other deprecated debhelper features (such as omitting
the debian/compat file), please consider fixing those while you are at
it.
Thanks,
~Niels
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00257.html
