Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-31 Thread Dima Kogan
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:21:06PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: >> > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat >> >> Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and >> "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. > > Using

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:21:06PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat > > Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and > "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. Using debian/compat and "Build-Depends: debhe

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat Oh. So it is. I vaguely remember that using debian/compat and "Build-Depends: debhelper" generated some lintian complaints. I don't see those anymore, though. Is doing something like that frowned-upon? I'd pr

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 11:15:30AM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > Hi. This probably has been covered before It wasn't, but it's completely identical to putting 13 into debian/compat, which never supported >= either. > This works fine if you're building for Debian/sid in 2022. It does not > work in any

Re: debhelper-compat should allow >= relations

2022-07-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On July 30, 2022 6:15:30 PM UTC, Dima Kogan wrote: >Hi. This probably has been covered before, but it's so consistently >annoying that I'd like to bring it up again. > >Currently the Debian build tools strongly encourage packages to have >exactly > > Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) > >T