Gergely Nagy schrieb am Sonntag, den 27. November 2011: Hi,
> > 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. > > Just for the record, to reiterate what I have said previously[1], dpatch > will be kept around until it can be removed safely: when all reverse > build-depends have been migrated to something else. > > [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00380.html > > That certainly won't happen before wheezy, and is unlikely to happen for > wheezy+1, too. My plan still is to phase out dpatch by wheezy+2, but > until then, it's a legacy that should be migrated away from, and must > not be used for new packages. Since there is no proper alternative (no quilt is not) I will continue to use dpatch for all of my packages. If neccessary I would volunteer to take over upstream. So if you are just going for leftover rdeps it will probably never be removed. Alex -- 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/20111128103201.ga3...@hawking.credativ.lan
