Felix Lechner wrote... > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 11:14 PM Christoph Biedl
>> Actually, I don't (yet) follow why this is a problem "even on stable".
>
> The service lintian.d.o runs on stable (buster). Without a backport, I
> don't think Debian's infrastructure can detect the tag
> 'source-contains-prebuilt-python-object' for any package in Debian
> (for python3 byte compiled binaries).
Understood, that bit of information was missing.
>> (1) The buster version of file should be available in stretch-backports.
>
> I am hoping to see the version from bullseye (testing) in buster
> (stable). Isn't stretch the previous stable release (old-stable)?
Yeah, off-by-one.
So, rephrasing, what are you asking for?
(1) The Debian 11 ("bullseye") version of file should be available in
the backports for Debian 10 ("buster").
(2) The Debian 11 ("bullseye") version of file should be available in
the main archive of Debian 10 ("buster), i.e. the rather seldom
case of bringing a completely new version to stable.
This is what I had in mind, and so the consequences are as written:
>> About (1), I am be happy to provide and extensively test such a
>> backport, but will not upload for non-technical reasons. If somebody is
>> willing to do this, and on a regular base, please drop me a line and
>> we'll arrange things.
>
> Does this complexity still exist in view of my comment above?
Yes.
>> About (2): This is a big change. Breakage is not likely but *if* it
>> happens the impact will be huge, so the anger created. Let me propose an
>> alternative approach, almost risk-free: Cherry-pick the applicable
>> commits from upstream and upload to stable-proposed-updates. With
>> backing from the lintian team, the release team will certainly not
>> object.
>
> Also, is this recommendation still applicable in view of my comment above?
Yes.
So which option have you been reqesting. If really (2), what about my
suggestion?
Christoph
PS: Please leave it to me when I consider the "moreinfo" requirement
fulfilled. Since so far it ist not, and I don't think ping-pong is a
nice game.
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