On 02/26/2018 10:02 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Thomas Goirand: >> [...] >> >> And then debhelper 12 is released, people start to use it, and guess >> what happens... :) >> > > I am prototyping an alternative in debhelper that may make this issue > obsolete. At the moment (since 11.1.5) you can use: > > Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 11) > > as a replacement for: > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~) > and d/compat set to 11.
Oh, great improvement. I always thought that debian/compat file was kind of too much, just to express the debhelper version... :) Thanks for this, Thomas Goirand (zigo)