Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]> writes: > packages should depend von debhelper >= X if X is listed in > debian/compat. At the moment lintian doesn't complain if you require dh > compat level 5 in debian/compat, but build-depend on debhelper (>= 4) > only, which does not provide the necessary compat level.
It looks like this is currently intentional: debhelper (>= 4) will always get you at least debhelper 5 since debhelper 5 released with oldstable, and we had some developers who didn't want to see the warning about an unversioned debhelper dependency when they only relied on a compat level that was already in oldstable. I agree that it's bad style to omit the version dependency. I think we should probably add a new tag for this case. I'm not sure about severity level; wishlist or pedantic, I think. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
