Package: debhelper Version: 13.25 Severity: normal Tags: forky sid patch Forwarded: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/127 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 + meson
debhelper currently implements cross-compiling with meson by invoking meson's Debian-specific debcrossgen script. That script works in basic scenarios (for example a simple C/C++ library), but is considered to be deprecated, and its maintainer does not want to apply patches to it for missing cross-tools that are needed by more elaborate packages. Now that Debian 13 development has started, it seems a good time to be switching from debcrossgen to `meson env2mfile`, which *does* accept (upstream) patches for missing cross-tools. There is an implementation awaiting review in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/127, although there might be some improvements/simplifications that can be made now that we have Meson 1.7.0 (with `meson env2mfile --for-build`) in stable and oldstable-backports. smcv
