On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:46:54PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hey, > > the jessie-backports removal itself is a logical step and it’s good that it > was done. > > That said, it complicates things a lot when backporting packages to Jessie. > Usually, it’s fine to just pull $random extra library to the extra > repository, but debhelper and friends is a different beast, as it often > requires upgrades in steps, or pulling some extra packages or dropping them, > etc.
The packages are still available after the removal: deb [check-valid-until=no] http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main > This is now especially painful with the differences between debhelper compact > 9/10 and 11/12 as those changes require reverting lots of tiny bits in the > source packages as more and more gets converted to v12. > > I don’t have a good solution for this, but keeping the debhelper and friends > (dpkg-dev, dh_<foo>) in an extra suite would be very much helpful for people > like me backporting bigger stacks to Jessie. I provide PHP (5.6, 7.0 and up), > apache2, nginx, ... and it’s very painful from time to time. >... AFAIK debhelper >= 11 was never in jessie-backports-sloppy. And the requirement to backport packages like cmake or meson from buster would make it *very* painful for anyone trying to backport debhelper 12 to jessie. > Cheers, > Ondrej cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
