Hello Stuart, On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 02:01:11PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: ... > I just tried building this package on Debian Jessie as most of our > infrastructure still uses this release. Out-of-the-box, it will not > build due to the version of debhelper, however if you tell it to ignore > this, it builds just fine. > > This suggests the version of debhelper could be dropped back to what's > available in Jessie and thus make it trivial for people to build this > package for Debian Jessie systems without needing to tweak the Stretch > version of the source package.
please use debhelper from jessie-backports as I don't want to switch back the current versions of compat and debhelper to a older version than 10.2. This was the intention by using 10.2.2~ as while working on 4.1.2 for Jessie debhelper was available with this version. $ rmadison debhelper debhelper | 9.20120909 | oldoldstable | source, all debhelper | 9.20150101 | oldstable-kfreebsd | source, all debhelper | 9.20150101+deb8u2 | oldstable | source, all debhelper | 10.2.5~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | source, all <---- debhelper | 10.2.5 | stable | source, all debhelper | 10.8~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source, all debhelper | 10.8 | testing | source, all debhelper | 10.8 | unstable | source, all Currently I've no plans to prepare a Jessie backported version of libcoap, at least if not more people requesting this. Regards Carsten
