On 8/20/20 10:46 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: > is it ok to submit packages in the Debian GIS Team that use the newer > debhelper-compat-syntax like this commit would do?
Preferably not, it's not supported by all Ubuntu LTS releases to which many GIS packages are backported. >> debian/compat deleted 100644 → 0 > > debian/control > - Build-Depends: >> debhelper (>= 10~), > + Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 10), And include >> a specific rule for root access or not: > |Rules-Requires-Root: no >> (hopefully). |Do we want to change our policy and package template in this >> regards? > > https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/policy.html#debian-compat This documents why we don't use the latest compat in Debian. > https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/package_template > > (I would be happy to give it a try to edit those two, if that is ok). The team policy and and package_template use the recommended default, and should not be changed at least until xenial is EOL. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
