Bug#1106574: release-notes FTBFS with gbp buildpackage

Hello Richard,

Is there a file "debian/compat"?

This file is obsolete. Please use debhelper-compat (=13) in debian/control.

Regards

Am 26.05.25 um 16:59 schrieb Richard Lewis:
> package: release-notes
> severity: minor
> 
> trying to build with "gbp buildpackage", i get a failure due to a
> missing build-dependency on git and debian/compat specifies debhelper
> level 5, but debian/control is asking for 13
> 
> The Makefile uses git on line 8 to set the DATE: I think the Makefile
> should also be patched to using the current date if 'git log' fails,
> since the user might have removed the .git.
> 
> 
> (i dont actually want to build a package, but i thought this would be
> the best way to build on a system that wont have all the many
> dependencies installed)
> 
> Command: dpkg-buildpackage --sanitize-env -us -uc
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package release-notes
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 13.0
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution UNRELEASED
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
>   dpkg-source --before-build .
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
>   debian/rules clean
> /usr/bin/make clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/reproducible-path/release-notes-13.0'
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> # this is repeated several times
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> rm -rf build
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> /bin/sh: 1: git: not found
> rm -f source/locales/*.pot
> rm -f source/locales/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo
> rm -f statistics.txt statistics.html
> rm -f source/conf.py
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/release-notes-13.0'
> rm -f build
> dh_clean
> dh_clean: warning: Please specify the debhelper compat level exactly once.
> dh_clean: warning:  * debian/compat requests compat 5.
> dh_clean: warning:  * debian/control requests compat 13 via
> "debhelper-compat (= 13)"
> dh_clean: warning:
> dh_clean: warning: Hint: If you just added a build-dependency on
> debhelper-compat, then please remember to remove debian/compat
> dh_clean: warning:
> dh_clean: error: debhelper compat level specified both in
> debian/compat and in debian/control
> make: *** [debian/rules:34: clean] Error 255
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

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