Please make sure your packages are debhelper compat 6

[Michael Shuler]

On 01/11/2008 04:15 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> Why the rush to debhelper 6?  This has the significant drawback that users 
> of Debian stable cannot backport the Perl Group's packages easily because 
> debhelper 6 isn't available in stable.

As an Etch user, I have installed a few packages from unstable, such as 
svn-buildpackage, dh-make-perl, and lintian, since they install cleanly. 
  Without building my own backport of debhelper_6.0.0 (I don't see one 
currently available), this change of debhelper version would require an 
update of dpkg-dev, dpkg, libc6..

After an svn up, I can no longer build the packages I recently uploaded, 
and I'm not too sure about allowing apt preferences to pull in a great 
deal of changes to my stable OS.  I suppose building in an unstable 
debootstrap chroot is possible, but less convenient.

Just a "me too" on Julian's note.

$ sudo svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=pbuilder
Complete layout information:
         buildArea=/home/mshuler/src/pkg-perl/build-area
         origDir=/home/mshuler/src/pkg-perl/tarballs
         trunkDir=/home/mshuler/src/pkg-perl/libdata-password-perl
 
trunkUrl=svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-perl/trunk/libdata-password-perl
fakeroot debian/rules clean || debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean build-stamp install-stamp
dh_clean: Sorry, but 5 is the highest compatibility level supported by 
this debhelper.
make: *** [clean] Error 1
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean build-stamp install-stamp
dh_clean: Sorry, but 5 is the highest compatibility level supported by 
this debhelper.
make: *** [clean] Error 1
Command fakeroot debian/rules clean || debian/rules clean failed in 
<unknown>, how to continue now? [Qri?]:
Aborting.

$ sudo dpkg -i debhelper_6.0.0_all.deb
(Reading database ... 131419 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debhelper 5.0.42 (using debhelper_6.0.0_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debhelper ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper:
  debhelper depends on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.15); however:
   Version of dpkg-dev on system is 1.13.25.
dpkg: error processing debhelper (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  debhelper

-- 
Kind Regards,
Michael Shuler