[Pkg-dns-devel] backporting knot-resolver

[Ondřej Surý]

>  * debhelper 10 is in stretch;
>  * dh-systemd is transitional/dummy in stretch; and
>  * python3-breathe and python3-sphinx are both in stretch.

You are thinking too small.

Knot DNS team publishes packages also for Debian Jessie and Ubuntu
Trusty and both of them are only debhelper 9 and python-{breathe,sphinx}
compatible.

> So i'd rather build the eventual stretch backport (assuming we can get
> 1.5.0 to migrate to testing) directly off of master, if that's possible.

That make sense to me, but I will need a debhelper9, python2 branch
available as well.

O.
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017, at 20:32, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi Debian DNS packaging team--
> 
> Ondřej and i have been doing some work on knot-resolver, trying to get
> 1.5.0 available in debian.
> 
> Ondřej, i noticed that you pushed three revert-commits to the
> master-backports branch that aim to make the package easier to build on
> older distros.
> 
> However, i don't think any of those three are necessary for debian
> stable.  are they?
> 
>  * debhelper 10 is in stretch;
>  * dh-systemd is transitional/dummy in stretch; and
>  * python3-breathe and python3-sphinx are both in stretch.
> 
> So i'd rather build the eventual stretch backport (assuming we can get
> 1.5.0 to migrate to testing) directly off of master, if that's possible.
> 
> I see you pushed efa6889d6b94fa39ee7ae59cee6cb85a4c5f1dbe as
> stretch-backports, with an Author: line attributed to me :) But it's on
> top of the master-backports branch.  Do you mind if i move that branch
> over to the master branch directly, so that it doesn't include the
> revert-commits?  or are the revert-commits somehow necessary for
> something i don't understand about stretch?
> 
> I'm fine if a jessie-backports-sloppy branch derives from the
> master-backports branch, fwiw.
> 
>           --dkg
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