Re: versioned dependency on base-files

Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <ahnOF9c0lMKJsv3_@nuc>
On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 03:57:56PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> I guess that when taking advantage of that by shrinking
> debian/copyright files to only reference some of those texts,
> that we should then declare a versioned dependency on
> base-files >= 14.1, right?

Good question. I guess that would be the absolutely correct way to do
it for now, yes.

While we are at it, I would expect this not to become a "should"
immediately, to give package maintainers some time to adapt before
reporting a lot of related bugs.

Thanks.
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