dh: warning: Implicitly activating single-binary dh addon for backwards compatibility. In compat 14+, dh: warning: this fallback will *not* happen automatically via dh_auto_install will instead use a dh: warning: different default for --destdir unless the single-binary add-on is active, dh: warning: which can cause the source to produce an empty binary package dh: warning: dh: warning: To keep the existing behaviour (compat 13) Should these compat levels be 15+ and 14 instead? debhelper-compat-upgrade- checklist suggests that.
Hello, Bug #1144222 in debhelper reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/b45e5af7e674c5c6660651235e058eaf5385b63c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remove mention of `single-binary` from compat 15 - it happens in 14 Originally (before compat 14 was released), the `single-binary` change was a two phase change (part compat 14, part compat 15). But it later got reduced to a pure compat 14 change. The compat 15 was unfortunately still documented and now has to go. Thanks: Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> Closes: #1144222 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1144222
Niels, https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/b45e5af7e67 feels wrong to me. debhelper still emits this warning for a package that only builds a single binary and is using dh compat 14: debian/rules binary dh binary dh: warning: Implicitly activating single-binary dh addon for backwards compatibility. In compat 14+, dh: warning: this fallback will *not* happen automatically via dh_auto_install will instead use a dh: warning: different default for --destdir unless the single-binary add-on is active, dh: warning: which can cause the source to produce an empty binary package dh: warning: dh: warning: To keep the existing behaviour (compat 13), please activate the single-binary addon explicitly. dh: warning: This can be done by adding "dh-sequence-single-binary" to Build-Depends or passing dh: warning: --with=single-binary to dh. dh: warning: dh: warning: If you have solved this issue differently (e.g., by passing --destdir explicitly to dh: warning: dh_auto_install or not using dh_auto_install at all) and want to silence this warning dh: warning: without activating the addon, you can do that by passing --without=single-binary to dh dh: warning: to explicitly acknowledge the change. dh: warning: dh: warning: Please see the description of the "single-binary" in "man dh" for more details of what dh: warning: it does and why this is changing from implicit behaviour to explicitly opt-in. Therefore, I use this in my dh compat 14 packages dh $@ --without single-binary I am looking forward to removing "--without single-binary" with dh compat 15. Also, I think there is a grammar error in the warning "this fallback will *not* happen automatically via dh_auto_install will instead use a different default". That looks like 2 phrases, but there is a missing conjunction and maybe a missing subject. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
Hello, Bug #1144222 in debhelper reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/commit/500d4c46673e313c5fa0013f71a983eb5420895e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Improve warning message for implicit `single-binary` addon Thanks: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> Closes: #1144222 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1144222
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1144222@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (supplier of updated debhelper package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:22:22 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 14.4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <debhelper@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Closes: 114716 1142220 1142577 1142730 1144222
Changes:
debhelper (14.4) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* meson: Use meson install --no-rebuild by default for compat 14+
(Closes: #1142577)
.
[ Athos Ribeiro ]
* Improve automated substvar injection documentation
.
[ Charles Plessy ]
* Note that `dh_installdocs` does not copy empty files.
.
[ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
* autoscripts/postinst-init-nostart: missing DPKG_ROOT
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_installsystemduser: Avoid warnings when unit is declared unrestartable
* dh_computeautosubstvars: Improve auto-detection for Commands field
(Closes: #114716)
* Revert "Remove mention of `single-binary` from compat 15 - it happens in 14"
* Improve warning message for implicit `single-binary` addon.
Thanks to Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> and
Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> (Closes: #1144222)
.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* upgrade-checklist: update note on user units handling (Closes: #1142730)
.
[ Américo Monteiro ]
* Update on Portuguese translation of the man pages (Closes: #1142220)
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