Agreed. Just bear with it for some weeks for few packages... On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, 6:10 p.m. Raphael Hertzog, <hert...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Currently, there's debhelper 11~bpo9+1 in Stretch. However, mostly > everyone > > build-depends on debhelper (>= 11), making it impossible to use the > backported > > debhelper without fixing the debhelper version of the software to > backport. > > > > It'd be nice if Lintian was warning about this, and nicely suggesting to > > build- depend on version 11~, to allow backports. > > I think it would be better to backport 11.1.4 (as 11.1.4~bpo9+1) and > forget about this. Otherwise we will be asking developers to update this > field for months if not years to come when in fact the problem will go > away in a few days/weeks. > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html > Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ >
