Fork it. Leave the current version (assuming it works, of course), in slink/frozen.
Keep a copy of the diff somewhere safe so if a release-critical pops up, you can fix it. Now change the doc-base stuff to accord with the potato debhelper (Aside: it is *evil* to make incompatible changes in debhelper. I hope that was a mistake by the debhelper maintainer ;), and upload the new version (bump the debian-version number) to unstable only. Then porters using potato (and note that the releasing ports should all be frozen by now, and using slink debhelper), will use your potato version. Does that fix it? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
