Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-31 Thread Dima Kogan
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:21:06PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: >> > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat >> >> Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and >> "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. > > Using

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:21:06PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat > > Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and > "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. Using debian/compat and "Build-Depends:

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. I don't see those anymore, though. Is doing something like that frowned-upon? I'd

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 11:15:30AM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > Hi. This probably has been covered before It wasn't, but it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat, which never supported >= either. > This works fine if you're building for Debian/sid in 2022. It does not > work in

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On July 30, 2022 6:15:30 PM UTC, Dima Kogan wrote: >Hi. This probably has been covered before, but it's so consistently >annoying that I'd like to bring it up again. > >Currently the Debian build tools strongly encourage packages to have >exactly > > Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) >

debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi. This probably has been covered before, but it's so consistently annoying that I'd like to bring it up again. Currently the Debian build tools strongly encourage packages to have exactly Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) This works fine if you're building for Debian/sid in 2022. It