On Monday, February 10, 2014 01:27:18 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 09.02.2014 18:49, schrieb Daniel Schepler: > > But since that new syntax is not backwards compatible with stable's dpkg > > and apt, we won't be able to actually upload packages using that syntax > > until at least after jessie's release. So in the meantime, I'm > > submitting patches with just the debian/rules changes, leaving out the > > debian/control changes. > Thanks for your reply, Daniel. > > So from what I understand, the patch is incomplete and not really > sufficient to enable bootstrapping. Is that correct? > > If so, I'd like to keep this bug open until jessie is released and we > merge a complete patch then. > > Or is there any benefit in merging an incomplete patch which simply > contains the debian/rules bits?
Well, it's still very useful to porters (and other bootstrappers) in allowing to bootstrap using just a simple command rather than needing to hand-edit debian/rules with the needed changes. Although, we're currently discussing a patch to debhelper which would allow us to put things like "Build-Profiles: !stage1" in debian/control binary package stanzas instead of the conditional -Nfoo -Nbar we're using now. So it might make sense to hold off a little while and wait for that to be available, to make a somewhat cleaner bootstrapping patch possible. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
