Bug#1050944: debhelper-compat level

[Vladimir Petko]

Hi,

 I apologise for my earlier comment being too vague and in the wrong
tone and mentioning a completely wrong (or misleading) thing. We do
openjdk security updates in -security pocket in Ubuntu and according
to security team FAQ[1] the updates are built with -release and
-security pockets. The updated debhelper is present in the backports
pocket which is not used by the security team for security updates.
This means that we are stuck with the older (11) debhelper version in
order to build security updates for bionic and up.

Best Regards,
 Vladimir.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#How_are_the_.22-updates.22_and_.22-security.22_pockets_different.3F

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 5:41 AM tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 07:19:15AM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 07:04:05PM +1200, Vladimir Petko wrote:
> > >  The debhelper-compat was intentionally set to >=11 in order to
> > > support backports.
> >
> > Thank you for the reminder.  I can easily revert the change.  But to
> > make sure I understand the requirements, how far back do we want to
> > support backports of new uploads of jtreg6?
> >
> > Although it wasn't part of the buster release, debhelper 13.x is
> > available in old-old-stable (buster) backports [0,1], which is as far as
> > I looked before making the change.  Is jtreg6 needed for stretch, which
> > is currently in EOL ELTS [2]?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > tony
> >
> > [0] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster-backports/debhelper
> > [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/oldoldstable-backports/debhelper
> > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
>
> Thank you for the upload.  As I mentioned to Vladimir above, I'd like to
> document the reason debhelper 13 is not backport friendly.  If you can
> give me a pointer or a brief explanation, I'll add it to README.source
> so it's clear to all.  (I assume it has to do with releases older than
> Debian buster or Ubuntu focal [3], since both of their backport suites
> already contain debhelper 13.)
>
> Also, there are build-deps of jtreg6, for example libhamcrest-java [4]
> that depend on debhelper-compat 13 and presumably need to be adjusted as
> well.
>
> Thanks,
> tony
>
> [3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=debhelper&searchon=sourcenames
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/libhamcrest-java/-/blob/master/debian/control#L10