debhelper-obsolete-compat - List of no longer supported compat
levels
This document contains the upgrade guidelines from all compat
levels which are no longer supported. Accordingly it is mostly for
historical purposes and to assist people upgrading from a non-supported
compat level to a supported level.
For upgrades from supported compat levels, please see
debhelper(7).
The following is the list of now obsolete compat levels and their
changes.
- v7
- This is the lowest supported compatibility level.
Changes from v6 are:
- dh_install, will fall back to looking for files in
debian/tmp if it doesn't find them in the current directory (or
wherever you tell it look using --sourcedir). This allows
dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install, which
installs to debian/tmp, without needing any special
parameters.
- dh_clean will read debian/clean and delete files listed
there.
- dh_clean will delete toplevel *-stamp files.
- dh_installchangelogs will guess at what file is the upstream
changelog if none is specified.
- v6
- Changes from v5 are:
- Commands that generate maintainer script fragments will order the
fragments in reverse order for the prerm and postrm
scripts.
- dh_installwm will install a slave manpage link for
x-window-manager.1.gz, if it sees the man page in
usr/share/man/man1 in the package build directory.
- dh_builddeb did not previously delete everything matching
DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE, if it was set to a list of things to exclude,
such as CVS:.svn:.git. Now it does.
- dh_installman allows overwriting existing man pages in the package
build directory. In previous compatibility levels it silently refuses to
do this.
- v5
- Changes from v4 are:
- Comments are ignored in debhelper config files.
- dh_strip --dbg-package now specifies the name of a package to put
debugging symbols in, not the packages to take the symbols from.
- dh_installdocs skips installing empty files.
- dh_install errors out if wildcards expand to nothing.
- v4
- Changes from v3 are:
- dh_makeshlibs -V will not include the Debian part of the version
number in the generated dependency line in the shlibs file.
- You are encouraged to put the new ${misc:Depends} into
debian/control to supplement the ${shlibs:Depends}
field.
- dh_fixperms will make all files in bin/ directories and in
etc/init.d executable.
- dh_link will correct existing links to conform with policy.
- v3
- This mode works like v2, with the following additions:
- Debhelper config files support globbing via * and ?, when
appropriate. To turn this off and use those characters raw, just prefix
with a backslash.
- dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst and postrm scripts
call ldconfig.
- Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by
dh_installdeb.
- v2
- In this mode, debhelper will consistently use debian/package as the
package tree directory for every package that is built.
This mode is deprecated.
- v1
- This is the original debhelper compatibility level, and so it is the
default one. In this mode, debhelper will use debian/tmp as the
package tree directory for the first binary package listed in the control
file, while using debian/package for all other packages listed in
the control file.
This mode is deprecated.
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Joey Hess