[Steve Kowalik] > I feel this check is useful is someone is using DH_COMPAT 5 and is > only Build-Depending on debhelper (>> 3).
That's useful, yes. I am only asking for the check to be reduced in scope. My situation is that I'm using DH_COMPAT 4 and I don't feel that I should have to version the build-dep, since debhelper 4 is in not only sarge but woody. People using DH_COMPAT 5 (or higher, in the future) should still use a versioned build-dep. I'm intentionally using DH_COMPAT 4 to make backporting that much easier, and because I don't think any of the level-5 changes are useful to me.
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