On 4 July 2018 at 22:41, Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
the package is managed in git since a while. Use $ dgit clone btrfs-progs to create the checkout. -- Regards, Dimitri.
