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NAME

6       debhelper-obsolete-compat - List of no longer supported compat levels
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SYNOPSIS

9       This document contains the upgrade guidelines from all compat levels
10       which are no longer supported.  Accordingly it is mostly for historical
11       purposes and to assist people upgrading from a non-supported compat
12       level to a supported level.
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14       For upgrades from supported compat levels, please see debhelper(7).
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UPGRADE LIST FOR COMPAT LEVELS

17       The following is the list of now obsolete compat levels and their
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20       v7  This is the lowest supported compatibility level.
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22           Changes from v6 are:
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24           -       dh_install, will fall back to looking for files in
25                   debian/tmp if it doesn't find them in the current directory
26                   (or wherever you tell it look using --sourcedir). This
27                   allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install,
28                   which installs to debian/tmp, without needing any special
29                   parameters.
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31           -       dh_clean will read debian/clean and delete files listed
32                   there.
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34           -       dh_clean will delete toplevel *-stamp files.
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36           -       dh_installchangelogs will guess at what file is the
37                   upstream changelog if none is specified.
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39       v6  Changes from v5 are:
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41           -       Commands that generate maintainer script fragments will
42                   order the fragments in reverse order for the prerm and
43                   postrm scripts.
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45           -       dh_installwm will install a slave manpage link for
46                   x-window-manager.1.gz, if it sees the man page in
47                   usr/share/man/man1 in the package build directory.
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49           -       dh_builddeb did not previously delete everything matching
50                   DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE, if it was set to a list of things to
51                   exclude, such as CVS:.svn:.git. Now it does.
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53           -       dh_installman allows overwriting existing man pages in the
54                   package build directory. In previous compatibility levels
55                   it silently refuses to do this.
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57           This mode is deprecated.
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59       v5  Changes from v4 are:
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61           -       Comments are ignored in debhelper config files.
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63           -       dh_strip --dbg-package now specifies the name of a package
64                   to put debugging symbols in, not the packages to take the
65                   symbols from.
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67           -       dh_installdocs skips installing empty files.
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69           -       dh_install errors out if wildcards expand to nothing.
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71       v4  Changes from v3 are:
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73           -       dh_makeshlibs -V will not include the Debian part of the
74                   version number in the generated dependency line in the
75                   shlibs file.
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77           -       You are encouraged to put the new ${misc:Depends} into
78                   debian/control to supplement the ${shlibs:Depends} field.
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80           -       dh_fixperms will make all files in bin/ directories and in
81                   etc/init.d executable.
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83           -       dh_link will correct existing links to conform with policy.
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85           This mode is deprecated.
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87       v3  This mode works like v2, with the following additions:
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89           -       Debhelper config files support globbing via * and ?, when
90                   appropriate. To turn this off and use those characters raw,
91                   just prefix with a backslash.
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93           -       dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst and postrm scripts call
94                   ldconfig.
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96           -       Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile
97                   by dh_installdeb.
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99           This mode is deprecated.
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101       v2  In this mode, debhelper will consistently use debian/package as the
102           package tree directory for every package that is built.
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104           This mode is deprecated.
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106       v1  This is the original debhelper compatibility level, and so it is
107           the default one. In this mode, debhelper will use debian/tmp as the
108           package tree directory for the first binary package listed in the
109           control file, while using debian/package for all other packages
110           listed in the control file.
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112           This mode is deprecated.
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SEE ALSO

115       debhelper(7)
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AUTHORS

118       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
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120       Joey Hess
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