Package: debhelper Version: 13.10 Severity: wishlist Hi! It would be nice if you banned old-style debian/compat in upcoming compat levels, in favour of the debhelper-compat b-dependency.
This would remove any need to check for missing debhelper dependency, and allow speeding up buildds by preinstalling debhelper. 99.9% of packages (61 exceptions in bookworm) use debhelper, yet it currently needs to be installed with apt+dpkg for every single build, which does take a while. In theory, there's a lintian check for missing debhelper b-dep, but that's an extra moving part. Plus, in the far future, when we drop compat 13, it'd be less complexity for you. Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (666, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20220109.1 ii dh-autoreconf 20 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.13.0-1 ii dpkg 1.21.9 ii dpkg-dev 1.21.9 ii dwz 0.14+20220924-2 ii file 1:5.41-4 ii libdebhelper-perl 13.10 ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.9 ii man-db 2.10.2-3 ii perl 5.34.0-5 ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information
