2015-05-06 15:22 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>:
> On Wed, May  6, 2015 at 12:40:51 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> Btw, I notice that XSF is still using Debhelper compatibility 8. Is
>> there any particular reason for foregoing compatibility 9?
>>
> Depends on the package.  I've been updating a few to debhelper compat 9
> recently.  For drivers however, at least when using dh_auto_configure,
> that requires overriding its multiarch libdir setting to keep things
> under /usr/lib/xorg/modules.  But there's no specific reason to avoid
> bumping to 9 AFAIK.

The consequences of compatibility level 9 (automatically enforced
multiarch libdir) on drivers is precisely what I'm worried about. If
there is a standardized debian/rules stanza for overriding this for X
drivers, I would love to hear about it.

Cheers!
Martin-Éric


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