On 06/12/25 16:14, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 06/12/2025 16:09, Michael Biebl wrote:
Going forward, we would like to get rid of this debhelper addon and
instead have packages install the files directly into the canonical
location under /usr.
As Helmut mentioned in his email, this will break backports to bookworm
and older
Related: can we please have a machine-readable way to encode the
backport level (stable, old-stable, a specific release like sarge) that
a package maintainer is willing to support?
This will greatly help non-maintainers that would like to contribute
patches to the packaging to "freshen it up" (and the janitor). (Common
question: "Is this package stuck at debhelper-compat (= 12) because the
maintainer forgot to updated it in a long time, or does the maintainer
actually backports this to old-old-old-stable?")
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
