package will generally need to depend on debconf. Or if you use
L<dh_installxfonts(1)>, your package will generally need to depend on a
particular version of xutils. Keeping track of these miscellaneous
-dependencies can be annoying since they are dependant on how debhelper does
+dependencies can be annoying since they are dependent on how debhelper does
things, so debhelper offers a way to automate it.
All commands of this type, besides documenting what dependencies may be
=item v9
-This compatability level is still open for development; use with caution.
+This compatibility level is still open for development; use with caution.
Changes from v8 are:
+debhelper (8.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:16:48 -0400
+
debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
* dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
Note that in the example above, dh will arrange for "debian/rules build"
to call your build-indep and build-arch targets. You do not need to
explicitly define the dependencies in the rules file when using dh with
-compatability level v9. This example would be more complicated with
-earlier compatability levels.
+compatibility level v9. This example would be more complicated with
+earlier compatibility levels.
=head1 INTERNALS
Note that this is not the same as the B<--sourcedirectory> option used
by the B<dh_auto_>I<*> commands. You rarely need to use this option, since
B<dh_install> automatically looks for files in F<debian/tmp> in debhelper
-
compatibility level 7 and above.
=item B<--autodest>
By default, the shlibs file generated by this program does not make packages
depend on any particular version of the package containing the shared
-library. It may be necessary for you to add some version dependancy
+library. It may be necessary for you to add some version dependency
information to the shlibs file. If B<-V> is specified with no dependency
information, the current upstream version of the package is plugged into a
dependency that looks like "I<packagename> B<(E<gt>>= I<packageversion>B<)>". Note that in