Please make sure your packages are debhelper compat 6

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:45:35PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote:
> 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..
> 
That is not necessary.

> 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.
> 
I build just fine by hosting everything on Etch with only backports of
devscripts and svn-buildpackage.

> 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

svn-buildpackage --svn-dont-clean

Also, I use pdebuild instead of pbuilder directly, so I pass
--use-pdebuild-internal to pdebuild.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
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