On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:02, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Marius Vollmer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On balance, I think it is better to just stick to debhelper 5 in
>> Fremantle.
>
> And from our experience in PyMaemo backporting various (but not that
> many) packages from debhelper compatibility level 7 to 5, in most
> cases you need just to change:
>
> * debian/compat: 7 -> 5
> * debian/control: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) -> debhelper (>= 5)
> * And maybe comment out a few dh_* calls from debian/rules, which
> might not exist on level 5
One of the huge advantages of moving to debhelper 7 compat is that you can have
your debian/rules files look like this:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
dh $@
Simple. You pass everything off to debhelper.
Jeremiah
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