Control: tag 950516 - moreinfo Hi Christoph,
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 11:14 PM Christoph Biedl <debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote: > > Actually, I don't (yet) follow why this is a problem "even on stable". The service lintian.d.o runs on stable (buster). Without a backport, I don't think Debian's infrastructure can detect the tag 'source-contains-prebuilt-python-object' for any package in Debian (for python3 byte compiled binaries). Many other services, such as tracker.d.o, link to the results. We strive to offer the full set of tags on the Lintian website. Lintian could perhaps use custom magic files as described in the file (1) manpage under --magic-file, but given the scope and purpose of 'file' I do not think that is reasonable. For the lesser problem in the test suite, I could constrain the affected test with 'Test-Depends: file (>= 1:5.38)' although it does not solve the problem above. > (1) The buster version of file should be available in stretch-backports. I am hoping to see the version from bullseye (testing) in buster (stable). Isn't stretch the previous stable release (old-stable)? > (2) The buster version of file should be available in stretch, i.e. > the rather seldom case of bringing a completely new version to > stable. Please see (1). > About (1), I am be happy to provide and extensively test such a > backport, but will not upload for non-technical reasons. If somebody is > willing to do this, and on a regular base, please drop me a line and > we'll arrange things. Does this complexity still exist in view of my comment above? > About (2): This is a big change. Breakage is not likely but *if* it > happens the impact will be huge, so the anger created. Let me propose an > alternative approach, almost risk-free: Cherry-pick the applicable > commits from upstream and upload to stable-proposed-updates. With > backing from the lintian team, the release team will certainly not > object. Also, is this recommendation still applicable in view of my comment above? Thank you for maintaining 'file'. Lintian could not run (or exist) without your work! Kind regards Felix
