On 30.08.21 15:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > I think one of the main challenges here is to make sure that the > dependencies for packages in unstable/testing are correct.
Why wouldn't they be correct, though? If it's less strict than it should be, then that is a bug. And if it's too strict, experimentation with lowered requirements sounds somewhat dangerous. The approach I chose was to just backport any necessary dependencies as well. (...backport any necessary dependencies within reason, that is. For example, some Python packages always have bleeding edge build dependencies in setup.py thanks to dependabot, but a diligent maintainer will downgrade those to whatever the doc say is sufficient, I hope.)