[Build-common-hackers] Bug#537240: Bug#537240: Bug#537240: Bug#537240: cdbs: should create versioned debhelper dependency

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:40:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>packages built with cdbs currently trigger a lintian 
>package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper, but the cdbs 
>maintainer thinks that cdbs' behavior is correct.
>
>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:22:08PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:53:24PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >> >cdbs creates an unversioned debhelper dependency, which triggers 
>> >> >a lintian warning on the generated package.
>> >>
>> >> Could you please quote that lintian warning?
>> >
>> I disagree with the described "recommended practice".  That could 
>> apply to *any* package, not just debhelper.  Backports older than 
>> oldstable will always be risky business!
>
>May I suggest that the maintainers of two important packaging tools
>get their opinions sorted out in a way that a package prepared using
>one tool do not get flagged as faulty by the other? Thanks ;)

Thanks for the suggestion, but...

As I wrote above, I do not see this issue as tied to debhelper: If 
lintian warned about unversioned dependency on perl[1] then I would 
similarly disagree.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

[1] Next release of CDBS will generate unversioned dependency on perl 
when using perlmodule.mk ;-)

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