Cellular Network Infrastructure

Oldest debian based distributions we support and their debhelper versions:

debian 8
        [217/227] installing debhelper-9.20150101
debian 9
        [231/233] installing debhelper-10.2.5
ubuntu 18.04
        [240/243] installing debhelper-11.1.6ubuntu1

I'm expecting we are however supporting distirbutions with debhelper < 9.20160709 (please check!) so we must find another solution.

Yes, for debian 8 we have a lower version.

laforge: how long do we want to keep building packages for debian 8? It reached end of support for "Security" and "Long-term" support levels, only the "Extended Long-Term Support" is available until 30 June 2022.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Release_table
• https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended

Can we either use some project config to substitute the package? Or do we have to introduce a custom empty dh-systemd transitional package for those new distributions?

We could adjust debian/control to depend on dh-systemd unless debhelper (>= 9.20160709) as done here.

However, as I'm looking into it... the dh-systemd dependency doesn't appear to be necessary in the first place. We don't use it in most Osmocom packages. The package provides dh_systemd_start and dh_systemd_enable, which could be used to start/enable systemd services. But we don't use these, from git blame it seems that the dh-systemd dependency was only added as copy-paste from other debian/control files or because it appeared to be needed to install systemd services.

So I'll make patches to remove the dh-systemd dependency from debian/control.

patches: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/q/topic:rm-dh-systemd

we can drop debian8 now that 11 is released. building for 9, 10 and 11 is reasonable enough.

done

all builds are green now :)

osmith wrote:

all builds are green now :)

not for latest: https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/network:osmocom:latest

We would need to tag new versions? patch release for each affected program, just changing the debian control?

New versions tagged. Waiting until packages are built before closing the issue.