Bug#362831: [Build-common-hackers] Bug#362831: Packaged contents has changed recently?

[Peter Eisentraut]

Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
> include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
> export DH_COMPAT

That doesn't work.  If you don't have a debian/compat file, cdbs will 
write one, which will since recently be level 5, which will indeed blow 
up your build because it is geared to level 4 but that fact is not 
written down anywhere.  You need to

echo 4 >debian/compat

and remove the DH_COMPAT business.