[debhelper-devel] Bug#840323: debhelper: cmake build system: cross compilation

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Holger,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:30:35PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> this seems a fairly strong statement, considering
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg-cross shows not a single bug filed
> against the package.

Quoting Neil Williams in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771496#46:
| summary 771496 If anything you are doing would fail after the removal of dpkg-cross, you're doing it wrong. It's going away, whether you want it to or not.

There is a reason why dpkg-cross is not part of jessie.

Wookey, should we add a blocker bug keep it out of jessie?

Helmut