24.10.2022 14:49, Michael Tokarev wrote:> 24.10.2022 14:34, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
..>> Do you think it's technically possible to have 4.16 on Ubuntu
20.04? Louis wasn't providing it.
>
> I looked at Fbuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa.? There's a small difficulty
there: they
> don't have debhelper 13, which is used in quite a few places in current
packaging
> (for example ${VARIABLE}s in debian/foo.install and the like files).? It is
not
> difficult to work around that, but I don't see real reason for that.
Actually this is not true: there's just one such place left
(samba/debian/python3-ldb.symbols.in)
and it is only in comment section, the actual expansion is done in d/rules file.
But the whole thing seems to be easy to overcome due to focal-backports.
Lemme give it a try..
/mjt