core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. $ dh dh: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat dh: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it! dh:

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 14-05-13 01:04 PM, Dale Amon wrote: It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. $ dh dh: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:45:30PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: We haven't released any security updates for debhelper. What exactly were you expecting as the result of the dh command? I used it in some old package scripts. In the interrum I've looked over this and I can live without it. I'll

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Robert Park
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Dale Amon a...@vnl.com wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:45:30PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: We haven't released any security updates for debhelper. What exactly were you expecting as the result of the dh command? I used it in some old package scripts. In

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread John Moser
On 05/13/2014 01:04 PM, Dale Amon wrote: It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. dh is not a core Unix command. Strongly suggested reading:

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:23:40PM -0700, Robert Park wrote: dh is debhelper, which is a tool that aids in building debian packages. As far as I'm aware, it's not something that you'd just run with no arguments (it has a lot of different subcommands and options for them). The error message