Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes:
> Lintian reports problems with debhelper dependency when using "6" in
> compat and build-depending on debhelper version 5.0.44.
>
> Debhelper itself claims support for compat version 6 in its changelog
> entry for version 5.0.44, which is the reason this version was used in
> CDBS dependency resolving.
I think this is wrong and CDBS should be fixed. There is clear
documentation in the debhelper man page:
Once your package uses debhelper to build, be sure to add debhelper
to your Build-Depends line in debian/control. You should
build-depend on a version of debhelper equal to (or greater than)
the debhelper compatibility level your package uses. So if your
package used compatibility level 7:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)
5.0.44's changelog says:
* Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
and 6.0.0 says:
* debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
level.
What this means is that all v6 features were *not* available in 5.0.44;
5.0.44 was still being developed at that time. Therefore, if you declare
compat level 6 and only have debhelper 5.0.44 installed, your package may
not build or may produce broken results.
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Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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