[Pkg-alsa-devel] 1.0.11rc3

[Thomas Hood]

Thomas Hood wrote:
> Perhaps we shouldn't set the dh compat level at all.  Is there some
> reason for not accepting the default behavior of debhelper?


OK, I removed the debian/compat files, reverted changes to debhelper
Build-Dependencies and updated changelogs.

In the past I thought that the debhelper compatibility level should
always be set and that debhelper would support all levels forever.
However, we now learn that old compatibility levels will get abandoned
after a while (levels 3 and below are going to disappear, according to
lintian); so it seems best not to specify a compatibility level and
just use the default (currently level 5).  If a backward-incompatible
change is ever made that affects one or more of our packages then we
can introduce a compatibility level setting at that time in order to
work around the problem.
-- 
Thomas