On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:54:23 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday, 7 June 2019 15:34:42 CEST you wrote: > > cme created an unneeded debian/compat file > > (with "12"); > I thought compat file was always needed... When is it needed or not ?
"debhelper-compat (= N)" in debian/control is the replacement for
both
debhelper (>= N) # in debian/control
and
N # in debian/compat
Cf. debhelper(7) -> COMPATIBILITY LEVELS
> > interestingly without mentioning it in its output.
> Weird. Which package are you working on ?
Several ones actually :) One was dh-make-perl's post-buster branch,
the other was a newly created one (with this dh-make-perl branch),
but the package itself doesn't matter.
Cheers,
gregor
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