Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:40:38PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> wouldn't it be simpler to couple debhelper dependency to >> Standards-Version ? > There are packages which may break with newer debhelper, but can be easily > updated to the current policy. >
Also, there are packages that deliberately hold back on adopting new debhelper compat levels because they want to be backportable as-is to stable (even up to oldoldstable in some cases). That said, I do agree that a maintainer should have to care about fewer turning wheels in debian/control than what our current packaging design requires us to do. Thanks, ~Niels