backportability

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Rolf,

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 09:15:16PM +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> you bumped debhelper level for twinkle to 10.  As far as I can see there
> was no real need or benefit by doing so.  This change does prevent the
> package from compiling on trusty LTS, though.  Backportability is a
> concern close to my heart.  I'm not preaching stagnation but in this
> case there is no benefit at all from breaking backward compilability. 
> Maybe you want to consider to revert the changeset?

So far I was actually in favour of keeping compat 9 at least until the
release of stretch; but I was convinced otherwise by a suggestion on
debian-mentors and by many DDs switching their packages to compat 10.

The solution is to backport debhelper 10 to Ubuntu trusty, which is
straightforward and has already been done for Debian jessie. This
will also benefit other backports besides that of twinkle.

Regards,
Peter