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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?
From:       Jonas Smedegaard <jonas () jones ! dk>
Date:       2018-01-02 11:08:47
Message-ID: 151489132783.21428.7992582863751911294 () auryn ! jones ! dk
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Quoting Niels Thykier (2018-01-02 09:23:00)
> Andrey Rahmatullin:
>> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:40:38PM +0100, J=C3=A9r=C3=A9my 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.

Maybe extend debhelper to support compat file content of "latest". Or =

simply treat a missing compat file as implicitly meaning "latest".


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