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Title:
  package guide: clarifying build-depends snippet.

Status in Ubuntu Packaging Guide:
  In Progress

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.

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