On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:02, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Marius Vollmer > <marius.voll...@nokia.com> wrote: >> On balance, I think it is better to just stick to debhelper 5 in >> Fremantle. > > And from our experience in PyMaemo backporting various (but not that > many) packages from debhelper compatibility level 7 to 5, in most > cases you need just to change: > > * debian/compat: 7 -> 5 > * debian/control: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) -> debhelper (>= 5) > * And maybe comment out a few dh_* calls from debian/rules, which > might not exist on level 5
One of the huge advantages of moving to debhelper 7 compat is that you can have your debian/rules files look like this: #!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ Simple. You pass everything off to debhelper. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers