[Pkg-dns-devel] backporting knot-resolver

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-11-13 03:06:09 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>>  * 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.

sure, understood.

>> 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.

yep, i'm fine with having a "lowest-common-denominator" backports branch
-- i think that's a good idea.  But i don't want to use it for distros
(like stretch) that don't need it :)

        --dkg