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

[wferi at niif.hu]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

> Personally I prefer to revert the compat bumps when doing backports for
> stretch (like in [1]) as I like to to keep the impact on the stable
> system as minimal as possible. Pulling in a newer i-s-h is a rather
> significant change.

 I see.  Dropping back to compat 10 is certainly an option, now that I
 know that only compat 11 is affected.  Thing is, this package never
 used compat 10, so this requires careful review.

> Thankfully not as significant as we had between jessie → stretch. So a
> backport of i-s-h might indeed be feasible on a cursory glance.

Given that it would potentially help several maintainers, could you
please give this some more serious consideration?  Strictly on the
theoretical level, of course. :)
-- 
Thanks,
Feri