Please make sure your packages are debhelper compat 6

[Russ Allbery]

Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:45:35PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote:

>> 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.

Er, well, I would worry about this:

  * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
    dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
    affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
  * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.

I think you're going to get a broken dh_shlibdeps if you do a
straightforward backport of debhelper without reverting this patch or also
backporting dpkg.

As a general policy, I never update the debhelper requirement for any of
my packages to a version newer than the one in stable unless there's some
specific reason for using the newer version.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>