Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com> writes:
> > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper.
>
> I think this is bad advice.
I agree. There are people building Debian packages on older releases,
and having a package fail because a known versioned dependency had its
version removed it a disservice to those people.
I might be missing arguments for removing the version, but I have only
been a DD for like seven years.
Greetings
Marc
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