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Re: Plan for backporting Inkscape 1.0 in buster?




On 2020, മേയ് 18 1:05:40 PM IST, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 07:46:09 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
>> but there is an issue post build with 'dh_dwz' failing
>
>dwz is an optional optimization (it compresses the detached debug symbols
>found in -dbgsym packages). If it is problematic for a particular package
>or backport, it's straightforward to turn off, which will result in
>somewhat larger debug symbols but shouldn't break anything. Add to
>debian/rules:

Or you can force using debhelper from backports by specifying higher version than present in stable (debhelper >= 12.3)

It is a real pain to deal with this for a lot of backports. It'd be nice if there was a debhelper stable update to fix this so there is no need to modify a large number of backports.

>override_dh_dwz:
>	:
>
>This is also useful when moving a package from debhelper compat level 11,
>which does not enable dh_dwz by default, to 12, which does: with dh_dwz
>disabled, packages built at compat level 11 and 12 will often be similar
>enough that diffoscope produces a comprehensible diff.
>
>Regards,
>    smcv
>

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