Adrian Bunk wrote: > Severity: serious Inflated. Bug #634741 probably did not affect many packages. It is up to the indidivual package maintainer to use debhelper in a way that produces a good package; there are many ways to use debhelper that produce bad packages, and these are, on the whole, not RC bugs in debhelper. AKA, bug inflation wastes my time typing this paragraph.
> With that the build behaves differently depending on what automake > version is installed. It's not debhelper's job to ensure that packages always build the same no matter what versions of build dependencies are installed. Ensuring that a sane set of build dependencies are installed is the job of the package maintainer. > Please add a "Breaks: automake (<< 1.11.2)" to debhelper to ensure > that automake supports AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. This would only make backports of debhelper impossible to use, unless someone also backported automake. It also appears to be a misuse of Breaks. Automake is not broken by the installation of debhelper. A Breaks field would only cause automake to be deconfigured, which would not prevent debhelper from using it. The correct field, if any, is Conflicts. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
