Trent W. Buck: > Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 02:30:02PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: >>> When backporting libpam-mount from experimental to stable, the only change >>> I needed was >>> >>> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), … >>> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), … >>> >>> The tilde allows ~bpo versions of debhelper to satisfy the constraint. >>> >>> The debhelper(5) manpage suggestion has no tilde. >>> Can it have a tilde? >> >> There is going to be no need in a few days once debhelper 11.1.6 will >> finally be backported (it couldn't be done before). > > Won't a similar problem happen if debhelper 12 ships around the time buster > becomes stable, and so on? > > I have vague memories of this biting me back when wheezy was stable, but > maybe I misremember. > > If you're confident this situation is rare enough to be ignorable, I'll defer > to you :-) > > [...] >
Depends on whether this alternative method for selecting compat levels turns out to work: https://nthykier.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/prototyping-a-new-packaging-papercut-fix-dry-debhelper-compat-level/ That said, adding a ~ in the manpage is a trivial matter and I will probably do that regardless. Thanks, ~Niels
