Am 12.07.2016 um 01:46 schrieb Tianon Gravi: > On 11 July 2016 at 15:37, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: >> A lintian check helps people to not introduce the mistake in new packages >> as well whereas a bug report only helps already existing packages (but >> will greatly help the conversion while lintian will not have that much >> of an impact). > > Speaking of lintian, what's the recommended way to make changes > accommodating this transition, especially for packages for which a > backport might be anticipated? If "dh-systemd" is dropped from > Build-Depends (simply "debhelper (>= 9.20160709~)"), lintian complains > about "--with systemd" but "dh-systemd" missing,
What is the exact lintian warning you are talking about here, https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-calls-systemctl.html ? I think we just need to fix the output and also the wiki page along with it to recommend a versioned b-dep on debhelper instead of dh-systemd. As for backports to jessie: If that is of concern to you, just keep using dh-systemd for now. It's not like we are dropping the dh-systemd package anytime soon. I wouldn't use alternative b-deps fwiw. Backporting this version of debhelper to jessie won't be trivial as this also means a backport of init-system-helpers. The latter is not easily done. This new lintian warning would only be informational and only show up in pedantic mode. I would suggest bumping the prio only in buster. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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