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Re: RFC: Pending changes in dh-make-perl



Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| gregor herrmann, Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:19:53PM +0100 |=-
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:30:45 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > >   * Set debhelper compatibility level of the created package to 6.
> >
> > 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 ...)
>
> IIRC, there were no objections for setting DH compat level to 6 for
> *new* packages. I have no strong feelings, though.

Oh, but there were.  The same backporting argument applies to new packages 
as well as to existing ones, after all.

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