bumping debhelper build-depends/compat (was: Re: RFS: unetbootin)
Hello,
On 2011-12-11 16:21, Arno Töll wrote:
> Debhelper's compatibility level is an orthogonal approach. It's a
> promise that your build procedures do _not_ break when using certain
> features. If you are building a package with debhelper 8.9.something
> installed which has, say, debhelper compat 4, debhelper disables certain
> features, behaviors and so on it would use or enforce otherwise. [...]
Right.
> Hence, I advertise people to use debhelper compat 8 in source packages
> where a package is known to work in that compatibility level. It does
> not mean "Hey, my package needs debhelper 8.x", but "My package is known
> to work with debhelper 8". [...]
That's something I fine with, though didn't see such packages. But
'bumping a version in build-depends without bumping debian/compat and
without using specific features in debian/rules' is another case.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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