Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: > On 18/11/17 12:41, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I have received several requests to make --list-missing or >> --fail-missing the default (#650129 and #858834) and I intend to do so >> eventually. I am a little concerned with adding more changes to compat >> 11 (the list is rather long already), but I am happy with making >> --list-missing the default for compat 12. > > Fair enough, though it seems unlikely that --list-missing would cause any > trouble... but you are the debhelper expert ;) >
It is not that --list-missing in itself will cause a lot of issues. It is that the documentation from v10 -> v11 is dauntingly long already and I want to avoid making it worse. In fact, I have already moved a handful of things to compat 12 to reduce the scope of v11. >> As for the sequences; we can add those to the next version of debhelper >> (a sequence change the parameters passed to a helper). If you file a >> bug for it with how you envision that, then I am happy to add it in one >> of the next uploads of debhelper. :) > > No need for a sequence if dh_missing starts doing something useful by default. > > Cheers, > Emilio > Ack. I mainly proposed it for enabling easier dh_missing already in compat 11. That said, we might get enough compat 12 items that it would make sense to release compat 12 before the release of buster. Thanks, ~Niels