[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Backporting of mailman 2.1.9-2

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Wed Nov 29 22:03:00 UTC 2006


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:54:54PM +0100, Pawel Tecza wrote:

> I'm writing to you, because I need to backport mailman 2.1.9-2
> for Debian 'sarge'.

> I've noticed that I need testing or unstable debhelper (>= 5)
> for Build-Depends.

> So my question is: do I really need newer version of debhelper?  I
> fixed debian/control and debian/compat files and built my backport
> without any errors or warnings.  Do you think that my changes make
> sense and there are safe?

I've taken a look at it, and I'd say you are pretty safe using
debhelper 4.x; the differences between compat level 4 and 5 are
minor.

-- 
Lionel



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