On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 03:11:19PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 02.05.2020, 14:12 +0900 schrieb Marc Dequènes (duck): > > Quack, > > > > If I rebuild redmine using gem2deb >= 1 I end-up with this error: > > gem2deb-test-runner : Breaks: ruby-mime-types (< 3.3.1-1~) but 3.2.2-1 > > is to be installed > > You are IMHO doing something forbidden or at least discouraged. Packages for > backports should be built with packages in stable only. Other backports should > usually not be required. Definietely not for building the package! To be > correct: My last information was, that this is a requirement. The backports > page now reads, that this is highly discouraged and only allowed in a few > cases. > > https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index3h2 > > Second and last point. gem2deb IMHO doesn't seem to fit these requirements. > Its > backport also should not contain the specific change for the unstable-testing > migration.
Backporting toolchain packages in general is usually a bad idea. In particular I object to backporting gem2deb at all.
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