Restoring debhelper dh5 compat for the LTS?

Wed Mar 23 14:58:27 UTC 2022

Please don't. There are many bugs in older compat level that may produce
debs no longer compatible with our OS. Especially around generated
maintainer scripts.

It's best to upgrade packaging to compat level 13. Sounds like a long
overdue packaging upkeep.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 14:34 Sebastien Bacher, <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Checking the desktop section of the ongoing archive rebuild we have a
> bunch of ftbfs due
>
>  > dh: error: Compatibility levels before 7 are no longer supported
> (level 5 requested)
>
> That's because the newest debhelper upload removed compatibility for
> level 5 and 6
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/a80ba4f797
>
> Those issues are easy to fix but I would prefer us to focus on spending
> our effort on more user impacting problems so I'm suggesting we revert
> the change for the LTS.
>
> How do other feel like about that?
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastien Bacher
>
>
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