Package: debian-installer Severity: important Niels warned in this bug report that debhelper is going to require all dh_* commands to be run from the toplevel directory at some point. He reverted dh_testroot's failure to just a warning when debian/control can't be read; but it will become a hard failure at some point, which cannot be accounted for through a compatibility level (one would need to read debian/compat anyway…):
Bug#879478: debhelper: dh_testroot regression: relies on debian/control We seem to be only calling dh_testroot twice from build/Makefile, and no other dh_* commands outside debian/rules. KiBi.