Hi Dimitri, Sorry for the delay replying, sometimes I forget to send emails in my draft folder when returning to some place with internet access.
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:00:12AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Hello, > > On 29 May 2018 at 01:47, Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: btrfs-progs > > Version: 4.16.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > Control: tags -1 patch > > > > Hi Dimitri, > > > > Trivial patch attached. The rational is debhelper/11.2.1~bpo9+1 does not > > fulfill >= 11, so 11 should be 11~. > > > > NAK > > 4.16.1 should not be backported as a no-change rebuild. The runtime > libraries and headers moved, thus breaking existing software in stable > releases. Does anything besides snapper use these? I plan to add breaks package-version~ for these. > Also, the transitional package was removed, breaking package declared > dependencies in earlier releases. Affected in stretch: xen-tools, schroot, lxc, linaro-image-tools, kvpm, fsarchiver and libguestfs0: depends on both btrfs-progs and btrfs-tools (yes, really!) Ok, I agree, a no-change backport is not appropriate, and I'll need to add the transitional package back in. On a closely-related topic, would you please consider maintaining the package in git? Sincerely, Nicholas
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