Re: Newer packaging tools on Trixe with stable-backports (was cif-tools, libpdb-redo and tortoize fail building with last libcifpp-dev)

Hi,

Am Tue, May 12, 2026 at 03:27:20PM +0200 schrieb Michael R. Crusoe:
> > I'm working on this right now. One of the first problems I run into is that you updated the watch files to version 5. However, my tools do not recognize this, I'm using Trixie.

In principle I'm fine if you revert (just leave version 5 as comment
which will help in future and prevent me from forgetting that this
is intentionally version 4 ;-) )
 
> FYI, you can install a backported newer version of uscan for Trixie using the `stable-backports` repository[1] and running `sudo apt install -t stable-backports devscripts`.
> 
> Personally I also have installed the following packaging related packages[2] from stable-backports on my Trixie system:
> 
> sbuild
> autopkgtest
> debhelper
> debusine-client
> dh-debputy
> git-debpush

That's definitely the more sensible approach.

I'd recommend to add lintian to this list.

Kind regards
    Andreas.