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From: Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>
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Subject: Re: Maintaining all of the testing-cabal packages under the OpenStack  team
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:20:01 +0200
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>>>     More over, mock debhelper was upgraded to 13, for no apparent
>> reason
>>>     (yet another "cosmetic fix" that isn't helping?). I'd like to
>> remind
>>>     everyone that, increasing debhelper compat version to a number
>> that
>>>     isn't in stable, without a specific reason (like the need of a
>> specific
>>>     feature that wasn't there before) is just annoying for anyone
>>>     maintaining backports. That's truth even for when debhelper
>> itself is
>>>     backported to oldstable (it's always nicer to be able to build a
>>>     backport without requiring another backport at build time).
>>>
>>> nope, this is not true. Using the newest debhelper compat level is
>>> recommended, see man page. There is no reason to __not__ upgrade
>>> debhelper compat level. I will always upgrade debhelper in my
>> packages
>>> to the newest debhelper as soon as possible. Please newer downgrade
>>> debhelper in my packages again without asking.
>>
>> I don't agree this is best practice when backports are to be expected.
>
> I'm substantially less enthusiastic about bumping compat levels than 
> Ondrej, but since debhelper 13 is available in buster-backports, 
> backporting is unrelated to whether it's a good idea or not.

Can you elaborate on other reasons not the upgrade the compat levels?

Scott