Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
debhelper has replaced debian/compat with the debhelper-compat virtual
package for most circumstances. Many packages made the switch already.
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html#COMPATIBILITY_LEVELS
I would like a pedantic reminder from lintian to switch from the
debian/compat file to the debhelper-compat virtual package.
Please note that there are some circumstances in which lintian should
not complain about use of debian/compat:
Note that debhelper does not provide debhelper-compat for
experimental or beta compatibility levels; packages experimenting
with those compatibility levels should use debian/compat or
DH_COMPAT.
In addition, it would probably be correct to not emit this if the
debhelper build-dep allows versions before the debhelper version that
added this feature (11.1.5~alpha1) or for uploads to stretch-backports
or earlier suites (the feature is in debhelper in stretch-backports but
isn't available in stretch itself):
debhelper (11.1.5~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
...
* Dh_Lib: Add an experimental feature to determine the requested
compat level from the Build-Depends field.
-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:01:31 +0000
debhelper | 9.20150101+deb8u2 | oldoldstable | source, all
debhelper | 10.2.5 | oldstable | source, all
debhelper | 12.1.1~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source, all
debhelper | 12.1.1 | stable | source, all
debhelper | 12.2.3 | testing | source, all
debhelper | 12.2.3 | unstable | source, all
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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