On 31 Jan 2017, at 17:09, James Clarke <jrt...@debian.org> wrote: > On 31 Jan 2017, at 14:56, James Clarke <jrt...@debian.org> wrote: >> However, given that I did not notice the "--build .dsc-file" bit when I first >> re-read it, I have changed my mind and will allow the old style to work. This >> *will* give a deprecation warning though, and I intend to remove it during >> the >> Buster release cycle; is that ok for you? I don't want to support this >> forever >> as I can give better error messages without this backwards-compatibility. It >> will also remain undocumented in the manpage. > > I have pushed this change and intend to upload to unstable soon. Please > confirm > this is ok.
Having looked more closely at src:cowdancer's reverse depends, I have found at least one package that calls cowbuilder without giving --build first. Therefore I will remove the deprecation warnings for Stretch, as reverse-depends will not be able to be fixed in time. Regards, James
