Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120909 Severity: minor For the squeeze->wheezy transition it was necessary for M-A:same packages to pre-depend on multiarch-support in order to ensure that a new-enough libc was installed first during the upgrade.
This need is now long past and the issue could only affect people upgrading from squeeze to stretch, which isn't supported and in practice still would't be an issue as plenty of packages now have the pre-depends. So, as part of unwinding this transitional measure debhelper should stop adding it to packages. The instructions for packagers have been changed to stop telling them to add this. Nothing is broken by the current state, but we are generally bad at tidying up cruft like this so we tend to accumulate it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.22-8+deb7u2 ii dpkg 1.16.16 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.16 ii file 5.11-2+deb7u8 ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u2 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information
