On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 18:50, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:58:27PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Please don't. There are many bugs in older compat level that may produce > > debs no longer compatible with our OS. Especially around generated > > maintainer scripts. > > > > It's best to upgrade packaging to compat level 13. Sounds like a long > > overdue packaging upkeep. > > I understand the principle here, but it seems very late in our cycle to > be suddenly finding ourselves with the task of doing this for the entire > archive. What changed that suddenly makes this urgent for _this_ cycle > in particular, apart from that someone noticed? > > I don't have a strong view on the technicalities here, but socially it > seems pretty harsh to suddenly impose this on development teams who are > already busy due to what amounts to an accident of timing for general, > tech-debt type improvements rather than something that directly impacts > user experience. It'd be nice to see a compelling reason to push for > more late notice work that doesn't rely on the word "may". >
I didn't mean to enforce or request an upgrade to 13. I wanted to ensure it is known that re-introducing support in debhelper for compats 5 & 6 is very risky, and potentially buggy and is not something we can or should attempt to do. Upgrading packaging from compat 5 to 7 should be fairly minimal, even if upgrading to 13 would be best. Especially since compat level 7 has been available for more than 14 years now. I am now deeply worried that we have packages in the archive that didn't get packaging updates for 14 years now. Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
