Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Mueller wrote: > Also true, but as I frequently need to backport packages to (old)stable, > I would really like people only to increase the debhelper compat level > if they really _use_ new features in the new level. > > While I backported packages to sarge during the etch release cycle, I >

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote on 09/07/2007 16:57: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:48:05PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >> Hello, >> what is the policy about file debian/compat ? > > It's a part of the interface to debhelper, and as such is documented in the > debhelper documentation. True. >> I was

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bruno * Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-09 16:53]: > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? There is no policy for compat since compat specifies the compatibility level of the debhelper tools and you don't need to build your packages with debhelper. > I was not able to f

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:48:05PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? It's a part of the interface to debhelper, and as such is documented in the debhelper documentation. > I was not able to find any policy about it in 'Debian Policy Manual' on

Re: Policy about debian/compat

2007-07-09 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:48 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > what is the policy about file debian/compat ? > > I was not able to find any policy about it in 'Debian Policy Manual' on > debian.org. It seems it should contain package version mentionned in > field 'Build-depends:' in debian/control