Marc Haber wrote: > What kept me from backporting debhelper myself is not only perl, but > also dpkg, which is definietely to "hot" for me to touch. The dependnacy on dpkg-dev 1.7.0 is only needed to make sure debhelper does not generate screwed up shared libraries. If you are not making a shared library with the backport, it doesn't really matter what version of dpkg-dev you use. -- see shy jo