package guide: clarifying build-depends snippet.

Bug #997822 reported by John Kim
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Packaging Guide
Fix Released
Medium
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Bug Description

http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/packaging-new-software.html

On the heading "Starting a new package," third snippet, the statement before it ("make sure it includes at least...") is slightly ambivalent.
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
One may change the values of their own build-control to be the value of this snippet, which would cause an inevitable error. I tried it and my first run-through was a failure by the heading "building the package."

I noticed when I left my build-depends value as it was,
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0)
the tutorial continued on smoothly. One may not be so smart enough to leave it alone.

Related branches

Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)
Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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