Re: freepats (was: Re: Intend to remove obsolete debhelper compat levels 5 and 6 before the release of bookworm (bullseye + 1)

2020-07-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Niels Thykier wrote: > > This is a heads up about my intention to remove debhelper compat levels > > 5 and 6. This is also an intention to do a MFB for this removal now at > > ... > > >

freepats (was: Re: Intend to remove obsolete debhelper compat levels 5 and 6 before the release of bookworm (bullseye + 1)

2020-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Niels Thykier wrote: > This is a heads up about my intention to remove debhelper compat levels > 5 and 6. This is also an intention to do a MFB for this removal now at ... > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >freepats Oh wow, I haven't looked at this pack

Intend to remove obsolete debhelper compat levels 5 and 6 before the release of bookworm (bullseye + 1)

2020-07-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, This is a heads up about my intention to remove debhelper compat levels 5 and 6. This is also an intention to do a MFB for this removal now at severity important, which will be bumped to RC later. With the current rate of migration as well as the current number of RC bugs in testing, I

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 5/22/19 2:28 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >> I just did a very annoying backport. The reason it was annoying was that >> two of the packages involved specified a debhelper compat level of 11. >> >> So in order to do the backport, I fir

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 04:53:57PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). > > > >You make it sound so hard, but in my own experience it really isn't. > > I totally feel with Simon, especially in the later part of a stable > release ba

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 22 May 2019 14:59:18 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >> So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). > >You make it sound so hard, but in my own experience it really isn't. I totally feel with Simon,

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). You make it sound so hard, but in my own experience it really isn't. > The debhelper 12 package itself has a compat level of 12, which means I > couldn't compi

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I just did a very annoying backport. The reason it was annoying was that > two of the packages involved specified a debhelper compat level of 11. We have debhelper 12 already available: | debhelper | 12.1.1~bpo9+1 | stretch-bac

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I just did a very annoying backport. The reason it was annoying was that > two of the packages involved specified a debhelper compat level of 11. > > So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). > > The d

Re: Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I just did a very annoying backport. The reason it was annoying was that > two of the packages involved specified a debhelper compat level of 11. > > So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). [...] > -

Debhelper compat levels

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I just did a very annoying backport. The reason it was annoying was that two of the packages involved specified a debhelper compat level of 11. So in order to do the backport, I first had to get debhelper 11 (or 12). The debhelper 12 package itself has a compat level of 12, which means I cou

Re: On debhelper compat levels (Was: Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?)

2018-01-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
debhelper dependency to > >>>> Standards-Version ? > >>> There are packages which may break with newer debhelper, but can be > >>> easily updated to the current policy. > >>> > >> > >> Also, there are packages that deliberately hold

On debhelper compat levels (Was: Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?)

2018-01-02 Thread Niels Thykier
There are packages which may break with newer debhelper, but can be >>> easily updated to the current policy. >>> >> >> Also, there are packages that deliberately hold back on adopting new >> debhelper compat levels because they want to be backportable as-

debhelper compat levels (was: Backport of debhelper)

2008-02-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
[forced change to debhelper v6 compat] > Do not follow the advice of that sponsor, look for a different sponsor > instead. Only ever update the debhelper dependency if you really use a > feature of the new version. Now, as this raised some comments on IRC, lets clarify it a bit: - compat mode v