[debhelper-devel] Bug#811143: Pretending DH_COMPAT was set to 5 but fails due to old compat level

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160114
Severity: minor

It's a bit strange that dh_clean assumes compat level 5 but
dh_installdirs fails because of the compat level.  It would be nice if
this was more consistent.

> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.67.0 (26 Dec 2015) on dl580gen9-02.hlinux
...
| bing 1.1.3-2 (amd64)                                       15 Jan 2016 19:29 |
...
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean -k
> dh_clean: Pretending DH_COMPAT was set to 5
> dh_clean:  - this is a temporary measure to avoid FTBFS in packages
> dh_clean:    relying on cdbs to set debian/compat to 5 during the build
> dh_clean: dh_clean -k is deprecated; use dh_prep instead
> dh_clean: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat
> dh_clean: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it!
> dh_installdirs /usr/sbin
> dh_installdirs: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat
> dh_installdirs: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it!
> dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 4 are no longer supported (level 1 requested)
> END failed--call queue aborted.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
Linux for HPE Helion, Hewlett Packard Enterprise