Bug#360711: lintian: [lintian-info] improve diagnostics of package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version

[Jari Aalto]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: minor

An example run:

# echo W: foo source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1 | 
lintian-info

W: edb source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1
N:
N:   The debhelper compatibility version used by this package (either
N:   declared in debian/compat or in debian/rules) is marked as deprecated
N:   by the debhelper developer. You should really consider using a newer
N:   compatibility version.
N:

The problem is that neither debian/compat exists or DH_COMPAT is defined
int debian/rules. Please consider using message like:

N:   The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is
N:   marked as deprecated by the debhelper developer. You should
N:   really consider using a newer compatibility version. Possible
N:   causes: 1) content of debian/compat 2) DH_COMPAT is defined in
N:   debian/rules 3) debian/control::Buil-Depends does not include
N:   version number for debhelper, like (= 4.0.0)

It was a little difficult to find out, that the problem lied in
debian/control::Buil-Depends

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat 1.41-1  produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev 1.13.17 package building tools for Debian
ii  file 4.17-1  Determines file type using magic
ii  gettext  0.14.5-2GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian  0.34.2+20060322 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchang 1.0-1   parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db   2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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Bug#360711: lintian: [lintian-info] improve diagnostics of package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version

[Russ Allbery]

Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The problem is that neither debian/compat exists or DH_COMPAT is defined
 int debian/rules.

Which means that debhelper uses its default compatibility level of 1,
which is deprecated.  That's what the warning is trying to tell you in
this case.  One should either set DH_COMPAT or (preferred) create
debian/compat when using debhelper.

I'll adjust the message to make that clear.

 Please consider using message like:

 N:   The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is
 N:   marked as deprecated by the debhelper developer. You should
 N:   really consider using a newer compatibility version. Possible
 N:   causes: 1) content of debian/compat 2) DH_COMPAT is defined in
 N:   debian/rules 3) debian/control::Buil-Depends does not include
 N:   version number for debhelper, like (= 4.0.0)

 It was a little difficult to find out, that the problem lied in
 debian/control::Buil-Depends

So far as I can tell from looking at the lintian source, Build-Depends
cannot create or solve this problem.  That's a different warning.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/


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