On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2024 12:47:44 +0200 Tobias Frost <t...@sviech.de> wrote: > > > > > > * Don't fixed: P: imsprog source: > > > package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version 12 - I want to maintain > > > compatibility for |Jammy| and |Focal| releases. > > > > If you package for different distributions, let me recommend me to utilize > > dedicated branches for those, for example by following the DEP14 proposal; > > this will allow to optimize for the different Debian derivates. > > > > For a Debian upload, please use a acutal compat level; >12 has a lots of > > benefits. > > Hi, I think compat 12 is not too old and can be keeped for now to make > possible to do unofficial build and individual build (any people also > without experience) on multiple Debian versions and derivatives still > supported easier and faster using debian/latest.
I disagree. Uploads to Debian are aimed for the next stable, not for old releases, therefore they should follow the current best practices, and this is not compat 12. DEP14 is designed to cater older (and other distributions), this would be a compromise. Also, debhelper is very often backported to older released, so many people will not even need to change back to an older compat level. Even Jammie and Focal have debhelper 13 available. IMHO There is no reason to stay at 12; while others might, I'll certainly will not sponsor level 12. > About creation of other packaging branches following DEP14 I think is good > only for official build (for example possible official backports), but > before I think is good update the package to 1.3.9-1 before consider doing > official backports and don't backports of 1.3.2-1. DEP14 is not only for backports, but also for other distributions, like Ubuntu, -- tobi
