[debhelper-devel] `dh --with autotools_dev` and `dh_update_autotools_config`
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
hmh at debian.org
Wed Aug 2 10:59:44 UTC 2017
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Tue, 01 Aug 2017, Niels Thykier wrote:
> >> I have offered to manage the deprecation and eventual removal of the
> >> autotools-dev related debhelper tools + sequence if we were to go down
> >> that route. However, as mentioned, I have not heard from Henrique, so I
> >> do not know if that is the way we will go.
> >
> > Can you send me the detailed plan? I don't have anything against
> > deprecating the autotools-dev debhelper tools and sequence, as long as
> > we don't break anything that currently relies on them.
> >
>
> Certainly. My plan is basically:
>
> 1) Have the autotools-dev dh_* tools + sequence call
> deprecated_functionality (from Dh_Lib) and set compat 11 as
> the compat level removing the functionality[1].
>
> 2) Have debhelper document this in the upgrade notes for compat 11.
>
> 3) Have lintian emit tags for usage of the debhelper functionality from
> autotools-dev.
>
> 4) Wait until the compat level is retired from debhelper. This is
> measured in at least 3 Debian releases for compat 11 (including
> "buster") plus a 1 year more[2].
>
> 5) Remove the tools from autotools-dev
Looks good. Let's implement it :-)
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Henrique Holschuh
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