Bastian Germann:
Hi Lance,
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You should not need to build depend on dh-exec with debhelper 13.
Cheers,
Bastian
Drive by remark/clarification:
* If you use dh-exec then you need to Build-Depend on it regardless of
debhelper compat level.
* With compat 13, debhelper provides a *subset* of the dh-exec and you
/may/ be able to replace your use of dh-exec with debhelper compat 13
features. In this case, you should remove the build dependency on
dh-exec.
I think Bastian's remark was alluding towards my second bullet but I
feared it might be misread as "just drop the build dependency".