On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:11:34 -0400 William Herrin <her...@dirtside.com> wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.24 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > Want to build quagga 1.1 on a Jessie machine > won't build because debhelper < version 10 > [...]
Hi, (Not the dpkg maintainer, but ...) Have you considered using the debhelper/10.2.5~bpo8+1 release from jessie-backports? Assuming you just need debhelper (>= 10) that should be sufficient. :) FYI/FTR: The backported version of debhelper works without dpkg 1.18 by disabling some features[1]. I suspect none of them are critical for your use-case (although, the lack of dbgsym packages can be inconvenient) Thanks, ~Niels [1] > * Existing changes from previous bpo releases: > - Disable automatic dbgsym as it requires dpkg-dev 1.18.2 > - Revert of sgml-base trigger as it needs a newer version > of sgml-base (Related bug: #825005)
