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Re: Is it okay to bump dh-compat?



On 21/02/2020 17:42, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Whilst working on libpam-radius-auth, I noticed that d/compat has
> value "4" which throws the following error:
> 
> dh_clean: error: Compatibility levels before 5 are no longer supported
> (level 4 requested)
> 
> Would it be okay to bump d/compat to 5 (or maybe 7) in such a case?

Huh, that package shouldn't have made it into jessie in such a state.

Sure, but better bump it to 5 and check the changes in v5 in the debhelper
manpage. You can also debdiff the old and new .debs to see if there's any change
in the installed files.

Cheers,
Emilio


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