=back
-=head1 COMPATABILITY LEVELS
+=head1 COMPATIBILITY LEVELS
From time to time, major non-backwards-compatible changes need to be made
to debhelper, to keep it clean and well-designed as needs change and its
In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
notice until v2 is complete.
- * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
+ * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
current compatibility level is equal to that number.
* doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
* debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
- * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
+ * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
debstd after all.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700