Hey, Recently [1], dpatch's maintainer uploaded a new version indicating that dpatch is now deprecated. Following that, he filed a bug [2] so that lintian might warn that dpatch's makefile has been deprecated since 2003, and that dpatch itself is now deprecated. However, he also stated that he plans to keep dpatch for wheezy.
[1]: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpatch/news/20111024T000209Z.html [2]: bugs.debian.org/646420 A week ago [3], a new lintian version was uploaded that gives an error if a package build-depends on dpatch, because it's 'obsolete'. [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lintian/news/20111121T230326Z.html I find this a bit shocking, since an error with lintian tends to be quite a big deal, and there are currently more than a thousand packages that build-depend on dpatch. It's been only a month since the upload stating that it's deprecated, and it's still going to be there for wheezy... Wouldn't it be better to make it a warning now, and an error after wheezy is released? I'm CCing debian-devel mainly so that other maintainers of 1087 packages build-depending on dpatch find out about this deprecation. Finding out about it through a lintian error was quite surprising to me. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAP+fKSpG-8GO1nYTn-zOnYYUdAYPkkB8x3=e=h7zwb8kyno...@mail.gmail.com
