Am 24.09.2017 um 00:36 schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov: > On 22 September 2017 at 19:24, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >> Am 22.09.2017 um 14:59 schrieb Michael Biebl: >>> I see that we already cleaned up dh_installinit wrt to .service and >>> .tmpfile units in compat level 11 and beyond so it seems like a good >>> opportunity to do the same for .upstart jobs as an intermediate step >>> until we can remove upstart support completely from debhelper. >>> >>> Attached is a patch doing this first step (deprecating .upstart in newer >>> compat levels). >>> >>> WDYT? >> >> Niels mentioned on IRC, that in compat 11, debhelper could make it an >> error to have an upstart file and use the opportunity to remind people >> to remove the conffile. >> >> I like that idea. >> > > I'm not sure about the timing though. Many people maintain backports > for their packages, and do backport them "unmodified" sometimes by > means of backporting debhelper first to keep things building > unmodified.
Well, maintainers don't have to bump the compat mode if backportability is important to them. Do we really have to support this special case? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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