Please make sure your packages are debhelper compat 6

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:07:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
My point to him was the backporting was not necesary if you invoke
svn-buildpackage properly and let it do all the cleaning inside the
chroot.

> 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.
> 
I seem to recall someone saying in #debian-perl that arch any Perl
modules that did not have debhelper 6 compatibility would have problems
with perl 5.10.  Otherwise I would not have made such an effort to check
the debhelper level on all the Perl modules I have uploaded in the last
few days.

If am wrong please tell me and I will go back and fix them.

Regards,

-Roberto

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