On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:57:44PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Stanislav Maslovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My sponsor asked me to delete versioned build dependency on debhelper. > > > > I think this is bad advice. > > I agree. There are people building Debian packages on older releases, > and having a package fail because a known versioned dependency had its > version removed it a disservice to those people.
That was my concern also. However, Romain pointed out that Etch (which will soon become oldstable) has debhelper of ver. > 5 so there should not be problems with backporting to it. > I might be missing arguments for removing the version, but I have only > been a DD for like seven years. Marc, Russ, thank you for your answers. Unfortunately, the package has been already sponsored and uploaded to NEW. I think that at this stage this change should be harmless. I will return the versioned dependency back when preparing the next modification of the package. -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
