[med-svn] r6311 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2011-03-19 11:28:28 +0000 (Sat, 19 Mar 2011)
New Revision: 6311

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Recommend Debhelper compatibility level 8 because it is in current stable and backported to oldstable.  This makes sense for new packages which need to be backported anyway if targting at oldstable.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
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--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2011-03-19 09:24:27 UTC (rev 6310)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2011-03-19 11:28:28 UTC (rev 6311)
@@ -326,7 +326,9 @@
 		
 		<sect2 id="debhelper">
 			<title>Debhelper</title>
-			<para>Debhelper uses compatibility levels to control the behaviour of its commands. The latest level is not always available in <emphasis>Stable</emphasis> or <emphasis>Backports</emphasis>. Please avoid using it unless needed until it is available, to facilitate backporting. We currently recommend to use the level <emphasis>7</emphasis>.</para>			
+			<para>Debhelper uses compatibility levels to control the behaviour of its commands.  We currently recommend to use the level <emphasis>8</emphasis> which
+			is available in current <emphasis>Stable</emphasis> (Squeeze) and backported to <emphasis>Oldstable</emphasis>.  However, there is no urgent need to
+			touch packages only because it has an older Debhelper version.</para>
 		</sect2>
 		
 		<sect2 id="cdbs">