On 11/09/2016 03:35 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > While I fully agree that we should fix this I'm not fully convinced how > to sensibly proceed here. The problematic thing is that we are quite > short before a release and if we might break metapackage creation in > some way we might get in trouble. I'm no Perl programmer myself (even > if I think your patch looks sensible) and so IMHO staying conservative > and add some line ending escapes could be the less invasive change. > > For the future I think we should start a common effort to switch to > blends-dev 0.7[1] which neither has the problem above nor some other > problems. > > If you (and Bas and other readers here) think we should fix the issue > right now I'm fine if you apply the patch below and we should seriously > test the metapackage creation of each Blend *before* 2016-12-05. > > What do you think?
I think supporting the deb822 format should be a Blends release goal for buster, it's indeed to late in the stretch dev cycle in my opinion. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
