Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: > Versioned dependencies are avoided whenever permitted by Debian Policy, > to ease backporting and to ease use of alternative tools providing same > interface.
I understand that argument in general, but that seems to directly contradict what you're doing with debhelper in particular. Adding the versioned dependency on debhelper can only help backporting (in admittedly unusual circumstances), and it makes no difference for alternative tools. If I were you, I'd special-case the debhelper dependency here to always match the compat level (unless, of course, something is in use that requires a newer version than the compat level). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
