Russ Allbery wrote: > Franck Joncourt <franck.mail@dthconnex.com> writes: > >> The current version of debhelper in lenny-backports is 7.2.6~bpo50+1. >> However a lintian warning suggests a BD on at least 7.0.50~ when we use >> override targets in debian/rules. > >> Therefore, I think there is no point mentionning the backport version. >> A BD on at least debhelper 7.0.50 should be sufficent. > > Why bother dropping the tilde? It isn't hurting anything, and if someone > happens to have a local backport of specifically version 7.0.50, it will > still work. > > Lintian's dependency recommendations normally include the tilde for native > packages matter of course. > >> - should be updated to require at least debhelper 7.0.50. Giving the version >> - followed by <tt>~</tt> is recommended so that backports will satisfy the >> - dependency. > > "backports" here is not intended to be specific to backports.org. > >> - lenny was released with debhelper version 7.0.15, so every package that >> - assumes a newer version should explicitly declare so for the sake of lenny >> - backports. > > This sentence is still true and shouldn't be removed. Not everyone > running lenny wants to use lenny-backports. > > I agree that it's unlikely there are a lot of people with a local backport > of specifically 7.0.50 who aren't using backports.org, but since > permitting for that is a single character and is best practice anyway, I'd > still recommend people follow the current Lintian advice. You are right on the whole. Now it makes me wonder in which cases I should really use the tilde, but that is off topic. I am going to investigate a bit :) My concern was about 7.0.50~ and the backport version available in lenny-backports. So feel free to close this bug report. Regards, -- Franck Joncourt http://debian.org - http://smhteam.info/wiki/
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