When I want to build a deb package with dpkg-buildpackage I get the following error message:
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: Scratchbox has unsatisfying version: debhelper 5.0.42
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It seems that Ubuntu 8.10 has a higher version (7.0.13) of debhelper installed than scratchbox.

Does anybody know how to circumvent this?

Ok, I found that I can create the .deb file if I edit the Build-Depends parameter in the debian/control file from "debhelper (>= 7)" to "debhelper (>= 5)" but I am not sure if this is a sane solution.

Any other explanations?