I was informed that Rafael Laboissiere, the maintainer, is not involved in Debian development. This package is too import for me to "play with" (since I'm still a beginner at packaging). If you know someone that wishes to take over, please do!
Also, it's too risky to include a patch for older debian releases. I think it's best to revert the changes I made and not proceed with this libmtp-common package, at least not for now. There are already a bunch of debian-specific checks that we should wait about 2 years until the next stable Debian release in order to remove the current checks in preinst and postinst. To sum up, I think it's best to wait the next stable Debian release to introduce another big change (I mean to make the libmtp.rules in its own libmtp-common package) with the package change. (And frankly, I don't have the time to test older Debian package versions with my exam period until October) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org