Re: debhelper compatibility

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 04:43:10PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 1/12/21 4:06 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > I noticed that most (all?) of the d-gis packages still use dh level 10
> > as the base one, while 12 was yet available in buster to. Is that a
> > precise choice for backporting onto old releases or what?
>
>
> It was bumped to 10 because 9 now triggers lintian issues in Debian,
> although I would have preferred to stick with 9 until xenial is EOL in
> April 2021.
>
> During the bookwork development cycle we can switch to compat level 12
> which is available for bionic in backports, using 11 is not recommended
> so we'll skip that. Until changes in debhelper and/or lintian force us
> to, we'll stick to compat level 10 though.

Clear, I was playing around with dh level and found that the dh_missing
does not like multiple calls of dh_auto_install with different build systems 
as for geographiclib, so I suspect that would trigger most of the changes
around in d/rules, because most of the changes are about init/systemd files.

In the meantime, I think I could prepare some branches
for that, for future merges. Did you already experimented with 12?

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Francesco P. Lovergine