Bug#330025: lintian: bogus compat check
Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> writes:
> tags 330025 +patch
> thanks
> Hi
> Easy patch included for consideration.
Thanks! At this point I'm tempted to take this, although I think that
CDBS still uses DH_COMPAT rather than a debian/compat file (but I'm not
positive, and regardless this sort of check wouldn't catch it).
However, in a quick check, I can't find any information that substantiates
the original reporter's assertion that it's deprecated. The description
in debhelper's man page is:
DH_COMPAT
Temporarily specifies what compatibility level debhelper should run
at, overriding any value in debian/compat.
which doesn't sound deprecated. Maybe it's the "temporarily" that should
be read as implying that it shouldn't be used as a normal part of
debian/rules?
A warning about setting DH_COMPAT in debian/rules is going to catch a
*lot* of packages, so I want to be sure that it's really the right thing
to warn about before we do it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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