[SCM] hydrogen/master: Revert to debhelper compatibility level 9: No concrete need, and may complicate backortability.

[James Cowgill]

On 19/07/17 09:42, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting James Cowgill (2017-07-19 10:08:11)
>> On 19/07/17 08:01, js at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>>> commit 9b06c83ac15dd64d9346a30c87b303b002e8efa3
>>> Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>>> Date:   Wed Jul 19 08:58:20 2017 +0200
>>>
>>>     Revert to debhelper compatibility level 9: No concrete need, and may complicate backortability.
>>>     
>>>     This reverts commit a85a269a206db56fd6b023563463f85fdbae0a6b.
>>>
>> [...]> --- a/debian/control
>>> +++ b/debian/control
>>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Uploaders:
>>>  Build-Depends:
>>>   cdbs,
>>>   licensecheck,
>>> - debhelper (>= 10~),
>>> + debhelper,
>>
>> You mean debhelper (>= 9) ?
> 
> No: Debhelper 9 is availiable even in oldstable so need not be declared 
> versioned (despite what debhelper/lintian developers might want to make 
> you thing).

I don't think that's a good reason for actively NOT versioning something
when the right version is clearly known.

James

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