Hello, On 2011-12-11 16:21, Arno Töll wrote: > Debhelper's compatibility level is an orthogonal approach. It's a > promise that your build procedures do _not_ break when using certain > features. If you are building a package with debhelper 8.9.something > installed which has, say, debhelper compat 4, debhelper disables certain > features, behaviors and so on it would use or enforce otherwise. [...]
Right. > Hence, I advertise people to use debhelper compat 8 in source packages > where a package is known to work in that compatibility level. It does > not mean "Hey, my package needs debhelper 8.x", but "My package is known > to work with debhelper 8". [...] That's something I fine with, though didn't see such packages. But 'bumping a version in build-depends without bumping debian/compat and without using specific features in debian/rules' is another case. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111211175904.GC3174@r500-debian