Bug#925524: init-system-helpers: Please provide a stretch backport for debhelper 12~

[Niels Thykier]

Etienne Dysli Metref:
> On 27/03/2019 21.12, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> I don't think I have much to add to it really beyond what is 
>> covered in https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/ 
>> debhelper-compat-12-is-now-released/
> 
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Thank you for your explanation. One point, however, isn't completely
> clear to me: does that
> 
>> Caveat for stretch-backports support: Due to the above, we need a 
>> versioned Pre-Depends on init-system-helpers.  That version is 
>> unfortunately not available in stretch nor stretch-backports and 
>> therefore packages relying on this cannot be safely backported to 
>> stretch (but they will be backportable to buster).
> 
> mean init-system-helpers 1.56 should not be backported to stretch?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Etienne
> 

I made no assertions abot whether init-system-helpers should or should
be backported to stretch.  If someone does it, great - it is easier for
people that want to use backports.  If no-one does backports
init-system-helpers, then we remain at the status quo (e.g. mentioned in
my blog post).

Thanks,
~Niels