On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:33 +0200, Santtu Lakkala wrote: > Andrew Barr wrote: > > It seems a lot of Debian source packages now require debhelper >= 5. > > This is a PITA because Scratchbox only has 4.2.32 and as far as I can > > tell building it is going to be no small task...I am failing to build > > the dependency libmodule-build-perl. > > Most of the packages I've run into only use debhelper >= 5 to get 5 to > debian/compat, I've successfully built many packages just by lowering > the dependency and echo 4 > debian/compat. Maybe one failed to build > because of that, not quite sure -- it's still worth a try.
You'll get subtle breakage -- but the only change if a build success is that if there are -dbg packages, they'll be empty (as the name format changed). man debhelper on a Debian system will tell you what the versions mean. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers