On 22/05/2020 03.10, Axel Beckert wrote: > I though see one problem with this: IIRC, the piuparts guys sometimes > use debsums as backport on stable. > > Cc'ing them if this is still the case and if they see any issues if a > debsums upload in the not-so-far future would depend on a very recent > dpkg version. (IIRC last time they needed a debsums backport, this was > because we fixed bugs they wanted to be fixed in their setups as soon > as they were found and fixed.)
That was for the introduction of the --ignore-obsolete option which allowed us to get rid of many false positives (and finally make debsums errors fail the piuparts test). We don't need any newer debsums than that. Andreas