On 12-05-20 at 09:27pm, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I assume you meant to reply to the list, hence doing the same. > > Am Sonntag, den 20.05.2012, 11:19 -0700 schrieb John Millikin: > > Why does DHG use "7" ? Is there an incompatibility between debhelper > > 8 and the DHG maintenance scripts? > > When we set it up, 7 was the current version. There is probably > nothing wrong with using version 8, but if there is, then we should > start doing it everywhere. I cannot tell why DHG uses 7, but I generally use 7 when no specific newer features are needed, to ease backportability. Please note that by "backportability" I mean the ability to compile in older officially released versions of the Debian distribution, without mixture with backports.debian.org or other hacks - no matter if officially hosted by the Debian organisation. - Jonas Now finally building new Pandoc packaging, after major overhaul... -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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