Bug#904886: lintian: Support "debhelper-compat (= X)" B-D as replacement for "debhelper (>= X~)"

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Chris Lamb:
> Hi Niels,
> 
>> The two methods for setting the compat level (d/compat
>> vs. debhelper-compat) will mutually exclusive (enforced in debhelper
>> itself) but will co-exist in the foreseeable future.  I.e. there are
>> currently no plans to remove d/compat.
> 
> Can you just clarify this? If you specify both you get:
> 

Yes, that is what I meant with *mutually exclusive* (I see I butchered
the original sentence, which may have resulted in your confusion).
Either debian/compat containing COMPAT XOR a B-D on debhelper-compat (=
COMPAT).

> [...]
> 
> ... thus, I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "no plans" to. :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 

That you are free to pick either method without (deprecation) warnings
or errors as long as you use *exactly one* of them in a given package.

Thanks,
~Niels