Bug#944258: lintian 2.32.0~bpo9+1 in stretch-backports depends on coreutils (>= 8.30), but stretch has only 8.26-3
Hi Felix,
> Yes, we probably can but I would like to understand, please, why
> coreutils 8.30 (which, according to Andreas Beckmann, builds cleanly
> in stretch) cannot find its way into stretch-bpo.
Backporting such a big package (with likely lots of other changes)
does not seem particularly conservative (or even safe) thing to do.
> Also, as a side note, would someone please explain why someone still
> on stretch would need lintian?
We will obviously drop supporting stretch eventually but I'm not sure
that time has come just yet. LTS work is just one example. Also,
stretch chroots/Docker images on CI systems, etc. etc. Not everybody
is using Lintian the way you are. :)
Regards,
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