Jeremy Bicha: > Hi, Hi Jeremy,
I am sorry to hear that debhelper is causing you issues. > I just wanted to point out that Ubuntu uses autopkgtests to check > uploads before allowing them into the regular development repository. > This bug is causing a very large number of autopkgtests to fail, which > is disrupting Ubuntu development work. Generally, anything outputted > to stderr will fail the autopkgtest. >> [...] > > Could you not emit that warning to stderr especially since I see only > one package using compat 11 now? > Sorry, but that argument is not enough to convince me that removing the warning in Debian is a good solution. * dh-acc is relying on a broken implementation detail that is being phased out. I would expect a warning in such situations. * At compat 11 this behaviour becomes an error, so it would ruin the point of the warning if we "wait" until compat 11. * The change to dh-acc is literally a 3-line change and would solve this issue as well (the process described in my original mail). This change is compatible with all supported versions of debhelper. Again, I understand your frustration, but I think the proper fix is at the level where it would be faster to deploy than further discussion, very trivial to do and with plenty of test cases. Thanks, ~Niels
