On 1/12/21 4:06 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > I noticed that most (all?) of the d-gis packages still use dh level 10 > as the base one, while 12 was yet available in buster to. Is that a > precise choice for backporting onto old releases or what?
Yes, as documented in the team policy: https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/policy.html#debian-compat The compat level is conservative to ease to work for UbuntuGIS where for the oldest supported LTS (xenial) only 9 (in release), and 10 (in backports) are available. It was bumped to 10 because 9 now triggers lintian issues in Debian, although I would have preferred to stick with 9 until xenial is EOL in April 2021. During the bookwork development cycle we can switch to compat level 12 which is available for bionic in backports, using 11 is not recommended so we'll skip that. Until changes in debhelper and/or lintian force us to, we'll stick to compat level 10 though. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
