Bug#954998: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: cme edit dpkg does not start

[Dominique Dumont]

Hi

Sorry for the late reply. I had a freelance mission from April to August that 
did not leave me much free time (or energy).

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:38:38 -0500 Ryan Pavlik <ryan at ryanpavlik.com> wrote:
> Recently, I have had cme edit dpkg stop working on my Buster system, which 
is mostly clean,
> with some use of buster-backports. This seemed to occur in conjunction with 
an update in which 
> lintian was upgraded - lintian (2.59.0~bpo10+1) over (2.55.0~bpo10+1). 
However, downgrading
> (to 2.57~bpo10+1 at least) did not resolve it, so perhaps it was something 
unrelated.

Lintian 2.57 brought a change to an API that broke cme.

Long story short, libconfig-model-dpkg-perl >= 2.132 depends on lintian >= 2.57

And libconfig-model-dpkg-perl < 2.132 must use lintian < 2.57

Please get back to me if this is too inconvenient to backport cme and I'll 
suggest a patch to cope with this breakage in lintian API.

HTH

Dod