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



-=| Julian Mehnle, Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +0000 |=-
> 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.

Right. Even if I find it strange to backport new packages, I have no
problems with it.

How about this:

 * make dh-make-perl use DH 5 in generated files
 * lenny releases with debhelper 6
 * make dh-make-perl use DH6 in generated files

Any objections for this?

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