Re: versioned Build-Depends on debhelper
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:05:21PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:57:44PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That was my concern also. However, Romain pointed out that Etch
> (which will soon become oldstable) has debhelper of ver. > 5 so there
> should not be problems with backporting to it.
There have been Debian releases before etch. Which is the reason why I
wrote "older releases" instead of etch.
> > I might be missing arguments for removing the version, but I have only
> > been a DD for like seven years.
>
> Marc, Russ, thank you for your answers. Unfortunately, the package has been
> already sponsored and uploaded to NEW. I think that at this stage this change
> should be harmless. I will return the versioned dependency back when
> preparing the next modification of the package.
And please deliver a cluebat to your sponsor and ask him to give
better advice to newbies in the future.
Greetings
Marc
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