[Pkg-cmake-team] Regarding cmake version

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2020, ഫെബ്രുവരി 21 2:53:11 AM IST, Boyuan Yang <byang at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi Stephen,
>
>在 2020-02-20四的 03:09 +0000，Stephen R Phillips写道：
>> Current cmake in debian is 3.13.4
>> From cmake information the following can be derived.
>> 3.16.4 is the last set of revisions:
>> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html
>> 3.15.4 is a bit more (seasoned with bug fixes from 3.13 and 3.14) and
>> may be a good candidate for at least a backport:
>> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.15/release/3.15.html
>> 
>> As KitWare does NOT time stamp their revisions (slightly frustrating)
>> it's hard to say how old what revision is, however 3.13.4 says
>> somewhere 2015.
>> 
>> I am aware that TRYING to install cmake from scratch on debian
>> doesn't work (having tried and failed). So I don't have the same
>> option as I did with KiCAD.
>
>The backports repository of Debian stable only accepts versions of
>software currently in Debian Testing so we do not have a version
>choice.
>
>I interpret your email as asking for a newer CMake to appear in the
>stable-backports repository. I am forwarding your email to Debian's
>current CMake maintainers since they are most likely to help with the
>backport work.
>

Since I needed newer cmake for updating nheko, I uploaded newer cmake to buster-backports.

I have pushed my commits here, if you like to pull, feel free. I had to lower debhelper-compat to 11 for dwz compatibility.

https://salsa.debian.org/praveen/cmake/-/tree/buster-backports

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