[Pkg-samba-maint] r1069 - trunk

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:28:48PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > There's IIRC a kind of tradition in the samba packages maintenance to
> > keep them easily backportable. If I'm correct, this breaks this and
> > will need minor changes for people who want to backport the packages.

> I appreciate your concern very well, but the reason new build tools are 
> introduced is so you use them, and not only two years from now.

> There is a backport of debhelper at backports.org.  If you're into 
> backporting at all, using that is easy.  It's not like this is a new 
> library that introduces new run-time dependencies or some other mess.

And what do we *get* for switching to debhelper v5 in exchange for this
added inconvenience for backporters?

If you can't actually name any applicable benefits, please revert this
change.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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