Sven Joachim: > On 2018-02-02 06:55 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> ... >>> Indeed, from my PoV we would ideally fix this issue in dpatch. However, >>> we need to handle backports as well and that puts quilt back the table >>> as well. I am not quite sure that I want to backport quilt and dpatch >>> to provide further debhelper backports. >> >> Why not? >> >> dpatch is a mostly obsolete Debian native package, >> most recent upload 2015. > > Moreover, dansguardian seems to be the only package which actually uses > dh with the dpatch addon. Apparently all other packages stuck with > dpatch still use classic debhelper and not dh. >
If we are down to that level, then fixing dpatch in sid and moving on is probably sufficient (among other, because dansguardian does not have a history of being backported). @Gergely: Are you ok with a (possible 0-day) NMU for tweaking the dpatch sequence? I am happy to test and include the proposed the patch for #868978 as well while I am doing the upload. :) >> quilt still has some upstream development, but nothing big. >> >> It might still be easier to revert the change in dh-autoreconf, >> but dpatch and quilt are not packages where I would see any >> potential problems with making and supporting a backport. > > Fortunately there is already a backport of quilt for stretch, and adding > a "Breaks: quilt (<< 0.63-8.2~)" to debhelper or dh-autoreconf looks > reasonable to me. > > Cheers, > Sven > Indeed, there is now a quilt backport with can solve that part with a Breaks. :) Thanks, ~Niels