> did you consider backporting the new features to the older Meson in Debian stable? No, since modifying an additional project would run counter to the goal of

> did you consider backporting the new features to the older Meson in Debian stable? No, since modifying an additional project would run counter to the goal of minimizing the scope of the backport's changes. (Especially important when said project is a dependency of other packages, and could potentially break other things on the distro. This was Debian Stable, after all.)