Package: maint-guide
Version: 1.2.31
Severity: important
This was completely my oversight...
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:40:31PM +0100, Maykel Moya wrote:
> El 27/01/13 15:03, Osamu Aoki escribió:
...
> Well, I'm packaging this[1]. Last time I uploaded it to mentors, in QA
> information I got a notice that compat-level was outdated (I was using 7
> while current is 9).
debhelper was 7 when squeeze freeze was going on. This came from those days
:-) Yep, someone should have bugged me for wheezy. You are the first!
This is worth to record in BTS.
> Maint-guide specify to set compat-level to 7[2]. It's understandable
> that 7 is the current level at the time of writing and it makes no sense
was
> to update maint-guide in sync with debhelper major version updates.
Yes, you are absolutely right.
> Given that, I suggest to add to maint-guide a statement saying that
> canonical source of 'last compat-level' is the manpage of current
> debhelper in sid (or the dist you're targeting in case of backports of
> stable updates). Something like:
> 'Currently, you should set it to the debhelper v7 as follows:'
> '$ echo 7 > debian/compat'
>
> 'Note that debhelper is a moving target. The last compat-level is blah
> blah blah...' (sorry, I'm not a native english speaker but I think you
> can get the idea)
Well ... you are more qualified than me ... I am a Japanese speaker.
> I'd even add the info that compat-level is actually the debhelper major
> version, with a link to http://packages.debian.org/sid/debhelper so
> people don't have to bother looking for the 'compat level' thing in the
> manpage.
I propose to fix this in 2 steps.
Step 1 possibly for wheezy: s/7/9/g
(including translations)
Step 2 for post-wheezy: add reminder to check the current recommended debhelper
version in debhelper(8) manpage.
Osamu
> Kind regards,
> maykel
Mucho gracias.
> [1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/pyxs
> [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#compat
Osamu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
maint-guide depends on no packages.
maint-guide recommends no packages.
Versions of packages maint-guide suggests:
ii debian-policy 3.9.4.0
ii developers-reference 3.4.9
ii devscripts 2.12.6
ii dh-make 0.61
ii doc-base 0.10.4
ii dput 0.9.6.3+nmu1
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
ii lintian 2.5.10.3
ii pbuilder 0.213
ii quilt 0.60-7
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