On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Hmm, if debhelper calls dpkg-shlibdeps -x package, it will need to > depend on the new dpkg-dev. Thus making backports annoying. > > I'm willing to do it, though. It's not the first time debhelper has > needed a version dpkg-dev dependency.
In the mean time, I also discussed this with Guillem, and maybe it makes more sense to try to fix this at the dpkg level when we write the control file out. We already have some code to simplify deps (#222652) it should be doable to also remove self-deps. I'll keep you posted. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
