[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Bug#673434: dssp: ftbs with gcc-4.7

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:23:36PM +0200, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote:
> One of the reasons I see is that changing compat to contain a number
> higher than 8 is that pdebuild stops working in squeeze... Since I'm
> using a production machine to build packages, this is a show
> stopper.

Perhaps this is a missunderstanding of using pdebuild:  Before you
upload to official Debian you should build every package in a clean
chroot (probably using pbuilder or some similar tool) which is featuring
an `unstable` system.  The rationaly is that you are uploading to
`unstable` anyway.  This requirement is independent from whatever
system you are running (it might be stable or any Ubuntu version).
 
> Anyway, I checked in a version of dssp with dh version 9, I believe
> it works as intended.

PLease do not missunderstand me:  I was not requesting you to change
debhelper version back if you have good reasons to do (and Laszlo who
seemed to have introduced the change) might have its reasons I have
currently (=as long as we did not discussed pros and cons) no reason to
override.  It just should be *documented* in changelog as changes
between the last an this version.

Moreover I think that when using debhelper 7 you need to manually care
for the hardening flags as described in the Wiki[1] to deal with the new
hardening related lintian warnings.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening

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