On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Indeed, from my PoV we would ideally fix this issue in dpatch. However, > we need to handle backports as well and that puts quilt back the table > as well. I am not quite sure that I want to backport quilt and dpatch > to provide further debhelper backports.
Can't we instead:
* ignore this bug
* have packages move away from dpatch (I believe now lintian even warns
about quilt packages using it? at least for 3.0 which is not this
case but still)
* don't worry about backports: new dh-autoreconf/debhelper won't be
pulled automatically, and if a package from sid doesn't build in bpo
isn't really a problem (this is of course different if a package
already in bpo already pulling a bpo debhelper/dh-autoreconf would
fail)
There are only 82 packages with a build-dep on dpatch, and I doubt there
are many that uses the dh addon AND autoreconf AND have a patch that
modifies the configure script.
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