Fwd: RFS: Scenic 0.6.0 - Telepresence software for live performances and installations

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sun Jun 6 01:07:43 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:03:18PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 01:26:00PM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>I am not sure how to get rid of this lintian warning:
>>
>>W: scenic source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 7
>
>Normal approach: Let debian/compat contain "7" and edit debian/control 
>to have a tightened build-dependency on debhelper to at least version 
>7.
>
>Funky CDBS approach: Copy debian/control to debian/control.in, edit 
>debian/control.in to include the magic build-dependency @cdbs@, and 
>invoke "DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 debian/rules clean".
>
>Then @cdbs@ gets expanded to build-dependencies resolved by CDBS, 
>including the proper (unless you do something unusual requiring even 
>tighter dependency) dependency on debhelper.

Sorry for sidetracking and making it an excuse for advertising CDBS 
semi-auto-generating build-dependencies.

I had a brief look now, and as you have lowered the build-dependency, 
you should simply adjust debian/compat to match: change it to contain 
"6".


  - Jonas

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