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Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat

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From	Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat
Date	Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:50:01 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 08:41:04AM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> Why not, it's a simple change and will get them all into line.
>
> One question though, what happens if the package compat level is not the
> latest?

debhelper currently Provides: debhelper-compat (= 9), debhelper-compat (= 10),
debhelper-compat (= 11), debhelper-compat (= 12).

So this change is safe to do for packages whose compat level is ≥ 9.

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Dmitry Shachnev

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Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-07-18 21:40 +0200
  Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Daniele Tricoli <eriol@debian.org> - 2019-07-19 00:20 +0200
  Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> - 2019-07-19 00:50 +0200
    Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2019-07-19 10:50 +0200
      Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-07-19 14:40 +0200
  Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-07-19 01:40 +0200
  Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2019-07-22 13:00 +0200
    Re: Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2019-07-22 14:20 +0200

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