Adrian Bunk: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:25:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> ... >> >> Backport availability >> ===================== >> ... >> *Caveat*: Packages using the cmake build system should be careful as >> cmake in stretch does not respond to the >> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run change in compat 11. If this is a >> problem for your package, the package should probably stay at compat 10 >> until buster is released. > > Is anything preventing a backport of cmake to stretch-backports? > > This would allow debhelper to add Breaks on older cmake versions, > which would also automatically handle all backports situations > in a correct way. > > > cu > Adrian > Assuming a cmake backport is feasible and materializes, then I am happy to add the Breaks in debhelper to make this case "just work(tm)".
That said, I am not ready to commit to maintaining a backport of cmake nor have I researched whether it is feasible at all. Thanks, ~Niels
