[debhelper-devel] [debhelper] 01/01: d/control: Clean up and document versioned constraints

[Niels Thykier]

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commit be7db93a85c129a07188760f97c87ee04c90f694
Author: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Date:   Wed Jan 3 11:58:23 2018 +0000

    d/control: Clean up and document versioned constraints
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
---
 debian/changelog |  2 ++
 debian/control   | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7984063..83a6bfc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ debhelper (11.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Note that the deprecated dh_systemd_enable and dh_systemd_start
       helpers have not been changed.  Services handled by these may
       still be started before configuration management happens.
+  * debian/control: Drop some very old versioned constraints that are
+    no longer important.
 
  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Sun, 17 Dec 2017 07:59:18 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9057309..3e9e80e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Uploaders: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>,
 Build-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.19.0.3~),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.19.0.3~),
                perl:any,
-               po4a (>= 0.24)
+               po4a,
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.1.2
 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
@@ -18,13 +18,19 @@ Package: debhelper
 Architecture: all
 Depends: autotools-dev,
          binutils,
+# Version where dh-autoreconf supports --sourcedirectory.  Can be
+# relaxed if no packages rely on it.
          dh-autoreconf (>= 12~),
+# Version constraint is to get a version of dh-strip-nondeterminism
+# without several bugs.  The constraint can be relaxed if an older
+# version is sufficient.
          dh-strip-nondeterminism (>= 0.028~),
+# Rules-Requires-Root support.  Otherwise it stops at 1.18.0/1.18.2 for dbgsym support.
          dpkg (>= 1.19.0.3~),
          dpkg-dev (>= 1.19.0.3~),
          file (>= 3.23),
          libdpkg-perl (>= 1.17.14),
-         man-db (>= 2.5.1-1),
+         man-db,
          po-debconf,
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${perl:Depends}

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