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 <ni...@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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