Please make sure your packages are debhelper compat 6

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Sat Jan 12 03:33:09 UTC 2008


Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:07:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I think you're going to get a broken dh_shlibdeps if you do a
>> straightforward backport of debhelper without reverting this patch or
>> also backporting dpkg.

> My point to him was the backporting was not necesary if you invoke
> svn-buildpackage properly and let it do all the cleaning inside the
> chroot.

Ah, yes, true.

> I seem to recall someone saying in #debian-perl that arch any Perl
> modules that did not have debhelper 6 compatibility would have problems
> with perl 5.10.  Otherwise I would not have made such an effort to check
> the debhelper level on all the Perl modules I have uploaded in the last
> few days.
>
> If am wrong please tell me and I will go back and fix them.

I'm not seeing anything in man debhelper under the V6 compatibility level
that would imply that.  Maybe there's something else that isn't
documented?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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