Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le 23/03/2022 à 16:08, Dimitri John Ledkov a écrit :
> Thus yes, there is an explicit
> mandate, especially for the universe, to be buildable. It can be
> resolved by fixing & upgrading packaging, or via removal of those
> packages from the archive. These packages are likely to be
> ubuntu-specific and/or niche leaf packages, not present in Debian.

I'm fine with that but it's a last minute change which created the issue 
just before the LTS (if the change had landed a few weeks later we would 
talk about it and I don't think we could argue that the LTS would be 
lesser quality as a result. and is adding a bunch of extra work now. I'm 
asking for us to delay that problem to the start of next cycle to allow 
us to focus our limited resources on fixes that are actually visible to 
our users and having a negative impact on our product.

I understand your opinion Dimitri and I think you stated it clearly, no 
offense but I would like to also hear from other teams and from the 
release team on the topic.

Cheers,
Sebastien