[pkg-wine-party] Dependency on newer debhelper in Stretch

[Andrey Gursky]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:52:55 +0200
Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26.07.2016 13:31, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was about to rebuild wine-development 1.9.14 locally and it failed
> > due to the dependency on debhelper (>= 9.20160702), which is still
> > 9.20160403 in Stretch. No problem, I've updated this package. But how
> > have you managed to let buildd automatically build wine-development for
> > Stretch with a broken dependency?
> 
> The packages are built in unstable, where debhelper 9.20160702 already
> was. However debhelper was/is set to remain 20 days in unstable
> (contrary to the usual 5 days) before migrating to testing (stretch).

Aha, that makes all clear.

> I still think it's better to use new tools as soon as possible, in order
> to find possible bugs. In this case there was a new debhelper feature
> requested by a wine user who, like you, had issues with the -tools packages.

Fully agreed.

Once, I discovered very soon an issue with a debhelper update. Reported
it [1], but instead to fix it, people since 4(!) years still suffer
from it. Though it's not a bug but a dilemma like issue, thus making
other people happy.

> The current debhelper hopefully migrates to stretch on July 29th.

Regards,
Andrey

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677876