On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 15:27 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Benjamin Drung 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.
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer