Comment 16 for bug 1954595

Dear all, not sure if this bug fix is just about dh_make or the full process to make a package for Launchpad that is documented on the Ubuntu documentation.

The former now works, the latter still fails further down the process.

Here is what now works:

$ bzr dh-make 1fichierfs 1.9.2~Focal /tmp/1fichierfs.tar
Fetching tarball
Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball
Upstream tarball already exists in build directory, using that
Type of package: (single, indep, library, python)
[s/i/l/p]?
Maintainer Name : ....
Email-Address : ....@....fr
Date : Thu, 26 May 2022 13:50:43 +0200
Package Name : 1fichierfs
Version : 1.9.2~Focal
License : blank
Package Type : single
Are the details correct? [Y/n/q]
Skipping creating ../1fichierfs_1.9.2~Focal.orig.tar.gz because it already exists
Currently there is not top level Makefile. This may require additional tuning
Done. Please edit the files in the debian/ subdirectory now.

Package prepared in /tmp/build/1fichierfs

That's fine.

Then further down the process we have

$ bzr commit -m "This is a test"
Committing to: /tmp/build/1fichierfs/
added debian
added debian/1fichierfs-docs.docs
missing debian/README.Debian
missing debian/README.source
added debian/changelog
added debian/control
added debian/copyright
added debian/rules
added debian/source
added debian/source/format
Committed revision 2.

(Note the "missing" warning is not an issue, that is because I purposefully removed these files that I didn't fill with useful information so far)
You can notice here that there is no "compat" file although I provided one in the debian directory.

echo 10 >debian/compat

Then further it seems to complain for compatibility level:

$ bzr builddeb -- -us -uc
Building using working tree
Building package in merge mode
Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball
Using the upstream tarball that is present in /tmp/build
Building the package in /tmp/build/build-area/1fichierfs-1.9.2~Focal, using debuild -us -uc
 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui
dpkg-buildpackage: info: paquet source 1fichierfs
dpkg-buildpackage: info: version source 1.9.2~Focal-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: distribution source focal
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changé par .... <...@...fr>
 dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: architecture hôte amd64
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh: error: Please specify the compatibility level in debian/compat
make: *** [debian/rules:18 : clean] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed
brz: ERROR: The build failed.

This was working as of 16.04, although it seemed to use compatibility level 9, and nowadays this seems obsolete.

What am I doing wrong (which is then probably missing in the documentation)?

Or is there something broken elsewhere with "compat" not being committed although it is present?