On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:59:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:53:36PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > Aren't the two redundant ? > > Not always, no. > > debhelper compat 10 was available before debhelper version 10 was > released.
And even aside from that, one sometimes needs to build-depend on a newer debhelper because it fixes a bug or adds a particular feature, yet without necessarily immediately opting into all the compatibility-breaking changes that come with the higher compat level. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
