Scott Kitterman wrote: > using a debhelper 7 feature and having a backport fail, but as a general > rule overspecifying the required version is frowned upon as it complicates > backports and is just not correct.
That makes sense. If you are using a basic set of debhelper scripts, there is no reason to require features you're not using be present. Lintian on the source package is able to tell you if you've used a feature not available at the given debhelper version. However, it would be quite useful to have a table of dh_* scripts specifying at what compat level and debhelper version they were introduced. I've not been able to find something like that anywhere. Btw, I'd like if someone could explain what good debian/compat is, now that there are versioned depends and e.g. dh_lintian requires debhelper >= 6.0.7~ and dh_icons requires >= 5.0.51~. In these cases, compat could be correct and the build would still not work if the microversion of debhelper was not up to specifications. Couldn't debian/compat be dropped? Cheers, Morten -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
