Thank you for the information. I don't have time at the moment but i'm going to learn
about DH_COMPAT 2 and 3, specially when DH_COMPAT 1 is deprecated.
I promise that next time i build a package for esms, i'm going to use DH_COMPAT
2 or 3. Anyhow, the actual package i made works and i'd like it to be uploaded
as soon as possible (lets see if it's in time to get into woody). Could you do the NMU?
thanks,
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:54:00 +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is how you could track the problem (say you want to know more about
DH_COMPAT) :
[eric@femto:~]$ grep -r DH_COMPAT /usr/share/doc/*
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/TODO:* DH_COMPAT 1. Can be removed once all packages
are seen to be using 2 or
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.indep:export DH_COMPAT=3
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules:export DH_COMPAT=3
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi2:export DH_COMPAT=3
/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi:export DH_COMPAT=3
/usr/share/doc/maint-guide/maint-guide.html/ch-dreq.html: 10 export
DH_COMPAT=1
[eric@femto:~]$
- First line offers me to look at /usr/share/doc/debhelper/TODO :
Deprecated:
* DH_COMPAT 1. Can be removed once all packages are seen to be using 2 or
higher. I won't hold my breath.
- Next lines suggest that DH_COMPAT is strongly tied to debhelper, so
[eric@femto:~]$ man debhelper
[...]
Debhelper compatability levels
From time to time, major non-backwards-compatible changes
need to be made to debhelper, to keep it clean and well-
designed as needs change and its author gains more experi-
ence. To prevent such major changes from breaking existing
packages, the DH_COMPAT environment variable was intro-
duced. DH_COMPAT may be set to a number, to determine
which major revision of debhelper should be used. There
are currently 3:
V1 Setting DH_COMPAT=1 (or leaving it unset) causes deb-
helper to act in compatability mode. It will use
debian/tmp as the package tree directory for the first
binary package listed in the control file, while using
debian/package for all other packages listed in the
control file. This mode is deprecated.
[etc.]
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