On 23-Apr-01, 12:08 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper > depends change fairly often. No sense forcing the build-depends maint > to keep up with joeyh's
No, I'm suggesting that build-depends could simply have an unversioned depends on debhelper. The buildds would then always[1] have the latest version of debhelper[2]. No effort required of the build-depends maint. *Nobody* can keep up with joeyh. :-) Steve [1] Assuming that the buildds do an "update/upgrade" on a fairly frequent basis. [2] So far, incompatible changes to debhelper have required the packages using them to specifically request such functionality; debhelper has been a paragon of upward compatibility. I'm sure joeyh and others can point out specific exceptions, but I can't remember an upgrade to debhelper causing problems[3]. [3] Modulo actual bugs in debhelper, of course. -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
