Note that those warnings are from Debian Stretch. Since it’s oldstable, it’s probably still OK to be building on it.

What OS do the Koha CI servers use?

David Cook

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From: dcook@prosentient.com.au <dcook@prosentient.com.au>
Sent: Monday, 7 June 2021 4:23 PM
To: 'koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org' <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>
Cc: 'Mason James' <mtj@kohaaloha.com>
Subject: Increasing Debian Package Compatibility Levels

Hi all,

I’ve been noticing lately some of the following warnings when I’m building Koha Debian packages:

dh_install: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)

dh_installdocs

dh_installdocs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)

dh_installchangelogs

dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)

dh_compress

dh_fixperms

dh_installdeb

dh_installdeb: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)

dh_gencontrol

It seems to me that we should look at upping our compatibility level.

We can see the changes between v7, 8, and 9 at https://manpages.debian.org/testing/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html.

At a glance, I think that we’d probably be OK moving up to 9 from 7. But we’d want to do some testing.