Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20120608
Severity: wishlist
At the moment debian/compat allows to specify a single level, which debhelper
takes as the compatibility level and enables(/disables?) some features
accordingly.
But often dh-based packaging itself is simple/generic enough to work fine even
with previous releases of debhelper still "in production" in Debian stable or
its derivatives (e.g. ubuntu 10.04 LTS carries 7.4.15ubuntu1). This hardcoded
single compat leve unnecessarily complicates backporting requiring to
patch debian/compat and debian/control for versioned build-depends on
debhelper.
What if debian/compat contained e.g. '17-19' with build-depend on debhelper (>>
17~), instructing debhelper that the highest compatibility level dh should use
(if supported) is 19, so that younger ones >= 17 could built just fine as
well?
NB alternative usable right away solution is to add debian/max_compat but
I would hate having 1 more 1 line file under debian/
unfortunately such a solution would not be usable right away on older releases
since older debhelpers would not be aware of such syntax and would still
require debian/compat patching for backports, but eventually (in 2-3 years) it
could help with backporting.
as for a current state-of-art solution I see only generation of debian/compat
in debian/rules upon configure (apparently lintian is not happy about DH_COMPAT
variable in debian/rules being anything but a number). but even that one makes
lintian unhappy a bit:
W: glew source: debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
W: glew source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1
or am I missing some other more elegant solution?
thanks in advance for sharing your wisdom, Joey ;)
P.S. as a side issue -- there seems to be no way to discover current
max compatibility level of dh (i.e. $max_compat) or just the compatibility
level without parsing debhelper package version string... may be there
could
be dh_compat script to spit it out? ;)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-6.1
ii dpkg 1.16.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.9
ii file 5.11-2
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii perl 5.14.2-12
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.60
-- no debconf information
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