On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:19:53PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:30:45 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > > * Set debhelper compatibility level of the created package to 6. > > > Please raise your voice if anything of the above looks suspicious. > > I'm not sure any more (although I made this change) if we should > already bump dh_compat now. As sgran has explained very well on IRC > that might make backporters try to find out a specific reason why 6 > is used, which just takes time. > (OTOH debhelper itself recommends using compatibility level 6, and > the later we switch the more "ancient" version we will see ...) > After causing some havoc with suggestiong people start using compat level 6, and then discussing this on the mailing list (d-devel or d-mentors, IIRC), I have reconsidered. The consensus was something like this for guidance: Use the latest compat level supported in the current stable release, unless you absolutely require something from the new compat level. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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