[med-svn] r3554 - trunk/packages/R/r-cran-qvalue/trunk/debian

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:44:34PM +0200, Steffen Möller a écrit :
> 
> I also did a package (I think it was with autodock or so) where I
> introduced a dependency on dh_prep and thus on debhelper >= 7. I started
> to regret this, since it will render the backporting more difficult.
> What do you think? Should we care about backporting?

Hi Steffen,

Debhelper 7 is in Lenny, so only backports to oldstable, which are not
supported in backports.org, are made more difficult. The difficulty is very
moderate when not using debhelper7-only commands like dh_prep, like for
r-cran-qvalue, as it is only a matter of downgrading the dependancy and the
compatibility level.

I prefer using the current stable Debhelper to be sure that the package builds
fine with it and detect issues early in the release cycle. Of course, if we
have user feedback against this, I am compeletely open to reconsider this or to
work together on the backporting with users for whom it is an issue.

Maybe we can put on our long TODO list to add a few words about backports on
our website…

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles