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Bug#884678: lintian: please consider debhelper compat 11 as stable



On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:32:25AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> package-uses-experimental-debhelper-compat-version still triggers for
> 11, but debhelper version 11 was released the other day
> (https://tracker.debian.org/news/894669) and is now considered stable.
> Please stop warning about it (if anything, recommend it!)

Here is the starting patch for it:

--- a/data/debhelper/compat-level
+++ b/data/debhelper/compat-level
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # warn if no versioned depend below this level
 pedantic=9
 # warn (pedantic) if does not depend on this debhelper level
-recommended=9
+recommended=11
 # warn if below this level
 deprecated=9
 # warn if equal or above
-experimental=11
+experimental=12


After that the testsuite falls apart, and will likely require some work
(and some more than basic knowledge about how it works).
I guess it would be nice to have the testsuite less tied to a given
debhelper compat level, doing
--- a/t/runtests
+++ b/t/runtests
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ sub check_test_is_sane {
     $data->{options} ||= '-I -E';
     $data->{todo} ||= 'no';
     $data->{'test-depends'} //= '';
-    $data->{'dh_compat_level'} //= '9';
+    $data->{'dh_compat_level'} //= '11';
     $data->{'default-build-depends'}
       //= "debhelper (>= $data->{dh_compat_level}~)";
     $data->{'extra-build-depends'} //= '';
causes a ton of package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends to be
emitted…

So, not so straight forward :)

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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