Paul Gevers: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Xavier, > > [...] > > Also, as this is a debhelper plugin, can't you couple this to a > debhelper compat level? I believe those were introduced to enable > introduction of backwards incompatible changes, but I have no idea if > that propagates to the helpers. > > [...]
As the debhelper maintainer: (As I have _not_ looked at the concrete case, I am _not_ coming with a recommendation for or against using the compat system in this case.) Third-party plugins are welcome to piggy back in the debhelper compat system (several have done so to date) and I am happy to include a note about it in debhelper(7)[1]. Thanks, ~Niels [1] This happened in compat 12 with e.g. the following note: * The third-party dh_golang tool (from dh-golang package) now defaults on honoring DH_GOLANG_EXCLUDES variable for source installation in -dev packages and not only during the building process. Please set DH_GOLANG_EXCLUDES_ALL to false to revert to the previous behaviour. See Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::golang(3pm) for details and examples.
