On 5/7/21 5:36 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2021, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Is there any reason to use debhelper 13? Does it have anything that >> is relevant for java packages? Just asking because that's usually >> something which needs to be downgraded for backports. But I assume >> there are enough dependency requiring debhelper v13 as well ... > > That’s Ubuntu you’re talking about. I’m still totally annoyed for > my PPA builds that bionic and focal don’t have debhelper 13 available. > > Debian backports, at least for the last 3+ years, have had reasonably > up-to-date debhelper, as downgrading the version just for backporting > is really undesired as backports change and hindering things in sid. > 13~bpo10+1 has a changelog date of 27 Apr 2020…
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports if you want to contribute a backport. backports for stable release updates can't be used. Matthias
