Re: Dh 7 backport done at last

[Micha Lenk <micha@lenk.info>]

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Dear Backport gurus,

since nobody really succeeded in providing a proper debhelper backport I
gave it a try to do it on my own. Based on the git repository I reverted
(hopefully) all changes that made the required versions of man-db and
dpkg-dev unavailable in Debian Etch.

Here my debian/changelog entry:

 debhelper (7.0.15~bpo40+1) etch-backports; urgency=low
 .
   * Backport for Debian Etch
   * Revert recode of manpages to UTF-8 (re-opens #462937)
     - dh_installman: revert the automatic recode of manpages to UTF-8
       and
     - drop Depend on man-db previously needed for UTF-8 recoding
     essentially reverting all changes from 6.0.5, 6.0.8, 6.0.9
     and 6.0.11.
   * Revert the use of features introduced by dpkg-dev packages newer
     than Debian Etch. In detail:
     - dh_makeshlibs does not support symbol files anymore
       (re-opens #443978)
       so it doesn't include symbol files either (re-opens #452717),
     - dh_shlibdeps: Revert updated documentation for -L and -l for
       dpkg-shlibdeps being not so smart any more (re-opens #459226),
     - dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, prepend the
       pwd to it again (changed in 6.0.0 due to changed dpkg-shlibdeps
       behaviour)
     - all in all lower Depends to version 1.13.13 of dpkg-dev
     essentially reverting partial changes from 5.0.61, 5.0.62
     and 6.0.0.
   * Adding myself to uploaders for monitoring on my QA page.

You can review my complete changes in this diff file:
http://micha.lenk.info/debian/etch-backports/backport_debhelper_+~bpo40+1.diff

or the resulting source package here:
http://micha.lenk.info/debian/etch-backports/debhelper_7.0.15~bpo40+1.dsc

I would be very glad if someone of the rather skilled backporters could
do a thight review and help to get a current debhelper package on
www.backports.org.

Regards
  Micha
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