On 21/02/2020 17:48, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 21/02/2020 17:42, Utkarsh Gupta wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Whilst working on libpam-radius-auth, I noticed that d/compat has >> value "4" which throws the following error: >> >> dh_clean: error: Compatibility levels before 5 are no longer supported >> (level 4 requested) >> >> Would it be okay to bump d/compat to 5 (or maybe 7) in such a case? > > Huh, that package shouldn't have made it into jessie in such a state. > > Sure, but better bump it to 5 and check the changes in v5 in the debhelper > manpage. You can also debdiff the old and new .debs to see if there's any > change > in the installed files.
I didn't realise that jessie only has v4 as deprecated, not unsupported, and that's because you're building the source package in a newer release. So what Roberto said. No need to bump compat in this case (and that shouldn't be necessary in a security update). Emilio
