Increase deb helper compat level to 13 by nickva · Pull Request #202 · apache/couchdb-pkg

nickva · 2026-03-12T03:12:25Z

This avoids a bunch of warnings we're getting when building debian packages. The new way to specify compat level is as a build dependency not as a separate compat file.

Prevent prevent generating some dbgsym, buildinfo and changes files. We don't upload them to the package repository anyway.

Skip trying to write build and install man pages. We get a bunch of groff errors and our main docs are in html or on our site.

--with=systemd is not needed with compat level 13, it's implied now, that is, it's always on.

Remove dh_shlibdeps for libmozjs185. We don't install or depend SM 1.8.5 for a while now.

This avoids a bunch of warnings we're getting when building debian packages. The new way to specify compat level is as a build dependency not as a separate compat file. Prevent prevent generating some dbgsym, buildinfo and changes files. We don't upload them to the package repository anyway. Skip trying to write build and isntall man pages. We get a bunch of groff errors and our main docs are in html or on our site. `--with=systemd` is not needed with compat level 13, it's implied now, that is, it's always on. Remove `dh_shlibdeps` for libmozjs185. We don't install or depend SM 1.8.5 for a while now.

Testing couchdb-pkg new deb package build updates. Here we're using our main CI's last package building step but instead of main using this PR's branch: apache/couchdb-pkg#202

nickva · 2026-03-12T14:07:42Z

I launched jenkins-* job with this branch: https://ci-couchdb.apache.org/job/jenkins-cm1/job/FullPlatformMatrix/job/jenkins-test-new-deb-build-rules/1/stages/

apache/couchdb@28528a1

An example of build logs from ubuntu:

23:56:54     dh_testroot -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:54     dh_prep -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:54     dh_installdirs -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:54     dh_install -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:55     dh_installdocs -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:55     dh_installchangelogs -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:55     dh_installdebconf -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_installinit -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_installsystemd -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_installsystemduser -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_installlogrotate -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_lintian -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_perl -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_link -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:56:56     dh_strip_nondeterminism -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:16  debian/couchdb/opt/couchdb/share/www/dashboard.assets/img/main-16.png: 1 bytes of garbage after IEND chunk at /usr/share/perl5/File/StripNondeterminism/handlers/png.pm line 172.
23:57:21     dh_compress -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:21     dh_fixperms -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:21     dh_missing -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:21     dh_dwz -a -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:26  dwz: debian/couchdb/opt/couchdb/erts-14.2.5.13/bin/beam.smp: DWARF compression not beneficial - old size 18419779 new size 18540493
23:57:26  dwz: debian/couchdb/opt/couchdb/erts-14.2.5.13/bin/yielding_c_fun: DWARF compression not beneficial - old size 310278 new size 311609
23:57:26     dh_strip -a -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:27     dh_makeshlibs -a -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:27     dh_shlibdeps -a -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:31     dh_installdeb -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:31     dh_gencontrol -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:31  dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package couchdb: substitution variable ${misc:Pre-Depends} unused, but is defined
23:57:31     dh_md5sums -O--no-automatic-dbgsym
23:57:31     debian/rules override_dh_builddeb
23:57:31  make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/jenkins-test-new-deb-build-rules/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-28528a1'
23:57:31  dh_builddeb -- -Zgzip
23:57:31  dpkg-deb: building package 'couchdb-nouveau' in '../couchdb-nouveau_3.5.1-28528a1~jammy_amd64.deb'.
23:57:31  dpkg-deb: building package 'couchdb' in '../couchdb_3.5.1-28528a1~jammy_amd64.deb'.
23:57:38  make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/jenkins-test-new-deb-build-rules/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-28528a1'
23:57:38  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/jenkins-test-new-deb-build-rules/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-28528a1'
23:57:38   dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary -O../couchdb_3.5.1-28528a1~jammy_amd64.buildinfo
23:57:39   dpkg-genchanges --build=binary -O../couchdb_3.5.1-28528a1~jammy_amd64.changes
23:57:40  dpkg-genchanges: info: binary-only upload (no source code included)
23:57:40   dpkg-source --after-build .
23:57:40  dpkg-source: info: using options from apache-couchdb-3.5.1-28528a1/debian/source/options: --compression=bzip2 --compression-level=9
23:57:40  dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary-only upload (no source included)
23:57:40  if [ "x86_64" = "x86_64" ]; then cd /home/jenkins/workspace/jenkins-test-new-deb-build-rules/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-28528a1/.. && lintian --profile couchdb couch*.deb || true ; fi

Compare to before

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:00:30  dh binary --with=systemd
10:00:30  dh: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_testroot
10:00:31     dh_prep
10:00:31     dh_installdirs
10:00:31  dh_installdirs: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_install
10:00:31  dh_install: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_installdocs
10:00:31  dh_installdocs: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_installchangelogs
10:00:31     dh_installman
10:00:31  dh_installman: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_installdebconf
10:00:31     dh_systemd_enable
10:00:31  dh_systemd_enable: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:31     dh_installinit
10:00:31  dh_installinit: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:32     dh_systemd_start
10:00:32  dh_systemd_start: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:32     dh_installlogrotate
10:00:32     dh_lintian
10:00:32  dh_lintian: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:32     dh_perl
10:00:32     dh_link
10:00:32  dh_link: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:32     dh_strip_nondeterminism
10:00:49  debian/couchdb/opt/couchdb/share/www/dashboard.assets/img/main-16.png: 1 bytes of garbage after IEND chunk at /usr/share/perl5/File/StripNondeterminism/handlers/png.pm line 172.
10:00:55     dh_compress
10:00:55  dh_compress: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:55  dh_compress: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:55     dh_fixperms
10:00:55     dh_missing
10:00:55  dh_missing: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:55     dh_strip
10:00:55  dh_strip: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:55  dh_strip: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:00:56  f13fe7adad5654e7ebd85e818b3695337f081f9a
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10:00:59  fbc3733e6bb4bef8d4affd6f74283d1bb951c84a
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10:00:59  85594c7c2bb34fa17ec52fa0e7bfe4effb54264e
10:00:59  a93abdec16c549cb09518774bfc62c9b6925c68e
10:01:00  80349726d88cb8d10bad4138dc922cc65a4c1a26
10:01:00     dh_makeshlibs
10:01:00  dh_makeshlibs: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:01:00     debian/rules override_dh_shlibdeps
10:01:00  make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:01:00  dh_shlibdeps -- --ignore-missing-info -xlibmozjs185-1.0
10:01:00  dh_shlibdeps: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:01:00  dh_shlibdeps: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:01:03  make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:01:03     dh_installdeb
10:01:03  dh_installdeb: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
10:01:03     dh_gencontrol
10:01:03     dh_md5sums
10:01:04     debian/rules override_dh_builddeb
10:01:04  make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:01:04  dh_builddeb -- -Zgzip
10:01:04  dpkg-deb: building package 'couchdb-dbgsym' in 'debian/.debhelper/scratch-space/build-couchdb/couchdb-dbgsym_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.deb'.
10:01:04  dpkg-deb: building package 'couchdb-nouveau' in '../couchdb-nouveau_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.deb'.
10:01:04  dpkg-deb: building package 'couchdb' in '../couchdb_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.deb'.
10:01:05  	Renaming couchdb-dbgsym_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.deb to couchdb-dbgsym_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.ddeb
10:01:11  make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:01:11  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jenkins/workspace/kins-cm1_FullPlatformMatrix_main/jammy/couchdb/apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def'
10:01:11   dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary -O../couchdb_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.buildinfo
10:01:13   dpkg-genchanges --build=binary -O../couchdb_3.5.1-c570def~jammy_amd64.changes
10:01:14  dpkg-genchanges: info: binary-only upload (no source code included)
10:01:14   dpkg-source --after-build .
10:01:14  dpkg-source: info: using options from apache-couchdb-3.5.1-c570def/debian/source/options: --compression=bzip2 --compression-level=9
10:01:14  dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary-only upload (no source included)

nickva added a commit to apache/couchdb that referenced this pull request Mar 12, 2026

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28528a1

Testing couchdb-pkg new deb package build updates. Here we're using our main CI's last package building step but instead of main using this PR's branch: apache/couchdb-pkg#202

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