Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the
> debian/rules.
> Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from the
> sources on a debian potato.
> The compilation fail on dh_clean that right report an error.
>
> If I turn DH_COMPAT to 2 all compile correctly even on a potato.
>
> So, why (and when) I have to use DH_COMPAT=3 ?
The version of debhelper on potato does not recognize
DH_COMPAT=3. That is a feature in the debhelper ver >3.0. That may
explain the problem of building on a potato machine.
Gopal.
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Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org> <gopal@astro.umass.edu>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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