Bug#891555: Detect and warn about debhelper >= 11 instead of 11~ b-d
On 02/26/2018 10:02 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Thomas Goirand:
>> [...]
>>
>> And then debhelper 12 is released, people start to use it, and guess
>> what happens... :)
>>
>
> I am prototyping an alternative in debhelper that may make this issue
> obsolete. At the moment (since 11.1.5) you can use:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 11)
>
> as a replacement for:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~)
> and d/compat set to 11.
Oh, great improvement. I always thought that debian/compat file was kind
of too much, just to express the debhelper version... :)
Thanks for this,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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