Comment 17 for bug 1954595

Possible workaround?

It seems that after "manually" providing the compat file in debian directory in the buildarea, if I run the "naked" debuild commands:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui

then

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -S

Instead of what is documented:

bzr builddeb -- -us -uc

and

bzr builddeb -S

All seems to be working fine and I get a binary deb package (first command) and a source package for launchpad.

Although I don't get "lintian" that seemed to be embedded when using the bzr wrapper... although that was anyway failing with my 16.04 install for unknown reason!