On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 15:27 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> writes: > > > Source: oath-toolkit > > Dear maintainer, > > > > Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t > > transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable. > > > > Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard > > against accidental backports with a wrong ABI. > > Thanks - for how long will the dpkg-dev build-depends be necessary?
As long as people might want to backport the package to an older release. As minimum I would say the next stable release of Debian and Ubuntu 26.04. Or until lintian will start recommending to drop it. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
