[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Bug#673434: dssp: ftbs with gcc-4.7

[Maarten L. Hekkelman]

Op 21-5-2012 13:30, Andreas Tille schreef:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:23:36PM +0200, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote:
>> One of the reasons I see is that changing compat to contain a number
>> higher than 8 is that pdebuild stops working in squeeze... Since I'm
>> using a production machine to build packages, this is a show
>> stopper.
>
> Perhaps this is a missunderstanding of using pdebuild:  Before you
> upload to official Debian you should build every package in a clean
> chroot (probably using pbuilder or some similar tool) which is featuring
> an `unstable` system.  The rationaly is that you are uploading to
> `unstable` anyway.  This requirement is independent from whatever
> system you are running (it might be stable or any Ubuntu version).

That's what pdebuild is for. It builds the package in a clean `unstable` 
environment (in my setup anyway) and throws the environment away after 
building. However, pdebuild starts by inspecting the debian directory 
using the current debian package tools and complains when compat 
contains anything > 8.

>> Anyway, I checked in a version of dssp with dh version 9, I believe
>> it works as intended.
>
> PLease do not missunderstand me:  I was not requesting you to change
> debhelper version back if you have good reasons to do (and Laszlo who
> seemed to have introduced the change) might have its reasons I have
> currently (=as long as we did not discussed pros and cons) no reason to
> override.  It just should be *documented* in changelog as changes
> between the last an this version.
>
> Moreover I think that when using debhelper 7 you need to manually care
> for the hardening flags as described in the Wiki[1] to deal with the new
> hardening related lintian warnings.

Well, since it was Laszo asking for a dssp with debhelper 7, I think he 
should join in to decide how to proceed?

best regards,

-maarten