Travis Crump wrote: > Wouldn't it be a bug in the package if it build-depended on debhelper 4, > but didn't actually use any features not available in debhelper 3[in > which case it should build-depend on debhelper 3]?[and I have debhelper > 4.1.52 and dh_shlibs isn't on my system...] Everything builds against the 'unstable' at the time it enters the archive. Nothing else is required. I think it is a wonderful goal to determine what the minimum level of depends are that you need for a package. But I also think it is too much to ask developers to do that. Although perhaps if it could be tested against the current 'stable' and that dependency version used instead it would be generally beneficial. It would certainly make maintaining backports much simpler. Developers would get extra karma points for it. Bob
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