Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat
Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. I don't see those anymore, though. Is doing something like that frowned-upon? I'd probably stick with compat level 11 or so. >> I'm having to patch debian/control every time I do a build > You presumably also have to patch debian/changelog, and building a single > unchanged (apart from debian/changelog) package for multiple distros is > not going to always work either (even for very vanilla packages, e.g. > because of different versions for versioned B-D in Debian and Ubuntu). Totally. Yeah. There aren't a huge number of packages here, and there aren't a ton of people using them. If something breaks, I'll get a bug report, and I'll fix it. It's well worth it to get APT as a distribution mechanism. Thanks much
