Hello, On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:55 PM Samuel Henrique <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding the smoke tests you added, I think it would be better to declare > them as "Restriction: superficial"[0]: > Done. > And on a side note, I'm not sure I know the difference between: > >> debhelper (>= 12~) >> > and > >> debhelper (>= 12) >> > > If anybody could give me a light here, I appreciate :) > Debhelper manual [1] requires to write > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12~) This simplifies backporting of packages. For example, stretch-backports has *debhelper 12~bpo9+1*. This version will match "debhelper (>= 12~)" condition and will not match "debhelper (>= 12)". >From debian-policy 5.6.12. Version [2] : > The lexical comparison is a comparison of ASCII values modified so that > all the letters sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde > sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example, the following > parts are in sorted order from earliest to latest: ~~, ~~a, ~, the empty > part, a. [1] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version Best wishes, Aleksey.
