Bug#852434: cowdancer 0.84 MIGRATED to testing

James Clarke jrtc27 at debian.org
Tue Jan 31 17:13:06 UTC 2017


On 31 Jan 2017, at 17:09, James Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org> wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2017, at 14:56, James Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org> wrote:
>> However, given that I did not notice the "--build .dsc-file" bit when I first
>> re-read it, I have changed my mind and will allow the old style to work. This
>> *will* give a deprecation warning though, and I intend to remove it during the
>> Buster release cycle; is that ok for you? I don't want to support this forever
>> as I can give better error messages without this backwards-compatibility. It
>> will also remain undocumented in the manpage.
> 
> I have pushed this change and intend to upload to unstable soon. Please confirm
> this is ok.

Having looked more closely at src:cowdancer's reverse depends, I have found at
least one package that calls cowbuilder without giving --build first. Therefore I
will remove the deprecation warnings for Stretch, as reverse-depends will not be
able to be fixed in time.

Regards,
James



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