On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 06:41:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Josh Triplett: > > Package: debhelper > > Version: 11.4 > > Severity: normal > > > > debhelper provides debhelper-compat 9, 10, and 11, but not 12. So, > > packages that want to try out the new compat level 12 currently have to > > go back to using debian/compat. Could you please provide > > debhelper-compat 12? > > > > If there's some reason not to do this, could you please document that > > reason (and the recommended alternative for packages using that compat > > level) alongside the documentation for debhelper-compat itself? > > > > (Speaking of which, it appears that debhelper(7) doesn't yet document > > debhelper-compat Build-Depends.) > > > > [...] > > > > Hi, > > I have not added compat 12 to the provides because it is not final yet. > If I add it now and later need to revise it before the release of compat > 12, then packages do not know if they get the beta version of compat 12 > or the final version.
Fair enough. In that case, I'll add a note to that effect to the documentation for debhelper-compat.
