Your message dated Mon, 8 Jun 2026 18:00:49 +0200
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and subject line Re: debhelper: comapt 14: Clearify if X-DH-Comat is the
preferred way to set debhelper level?
has caused the Debian Bug report #1133679,
regarding debhelper: Clarify whether X-DH-Compat is the preferred way to set
compat level
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Package: debhelper
Version: 13.31
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: block 1072698 by -1
Hey,
if I read the documentation of the debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7):
"The debian/compat file is no longer accepted as a source for specifying
the debhelper compat level. Put the compat level in the X-DH-Compat
field of the Source stanza of debian/control."
This sounds for me that X-DH-Compat is the preferred new way to set the
debhelper compat level. From debhelper(7) it sounds more like I need to
use X-DH-Compat, because dh 14 is not released yet.
debhelper(7):
"Note that debhelper does not provide debhelper-compat for
experimental or beta compatibility levels; packages experimenting with
those compatibility levels should put the compat level in the
X-DH-Compat field of the Source stanza of the debian/control file (or,
if only for selected commands, the DH_COMPAT environment variable)."
Properly debheler(7) is correct so I would recommend to rephase
debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7) like this (and remove the Note
fter it is released):
"The debian/compat file is no longer accepted as a source for specifying
the debhelper compat level. The preferred way is to use
debhelper-compat (= 14) in the B-Ds.
Note that debhelper does not provide debhelper-compat for
experimental or beta compatibility levels; packages experimenting with
those compatibility levels should put the compat level in the
X-DH-Compat field of the Source stanza of the debian/control file (or,
if only for selected commands, the DH_COMPAT environment variable)."
Regards,
hefee
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20240727.1
ii dh-autoreconf 22
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.15.0-1
ii dpkg 1.23.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.23.7
ii dwz 0.16-4
ii file 1:5.46-5+b1
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.31
ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.7
ii man-db 2.13.1-1
ii perl 5.40.1-7+b1
ii po-debconf 1.0.22
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 2.202503
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 13.32
Closed by debhelper/13.32 but the changelog had the wrong bug number
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:46:42 +0200 Hefee <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.31
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: block 1072698 by -1
Hey,
if I read the documentation of the debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7):
"The debian/compat file is no longer accepted as a source for specifying
the debhelper compat level. Put the compat level in the X-DH-Compat
field of the Source stanza of debian/control."
This sounds for me that X-DH-Compat is the preferred new way to set the
debhelper compat level. From debhelper(7) it sounds more like I need to
use X-DH-Compat, because dh 14 is not released yet.
debhelper(7):
"Note that debhelper does not provide debhelper-compat for
experimental or beta compatibility levels; packages experimenting with
those compatibility levels should put the compat level in the
X-DH-Compat field of the Source stanza of the debian/control file (or,
if only for selected commands, the DH_COMPAT environment variable)."
Properly debheler(7) is correct so I would recommend to rephase
debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7) like this (and remove the Note
fter it is released):
"The debian/compat file is no longer accepted as a source for specifying
the debhelper compat level. The preferred way is to use
debhelper-compat (= 14) in the B-Ds.
Note that debhelper does not provide debhelper-compat for
experimental or beta compatibility levels; packages experimenting with
those compatibility levels should put the compat level in the
X-DH-Compat field of the Source stanza of the debian/control file (or,
if only for selected commands, the DH_COMPAT environment variable)."
Regards,
hefee
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