debian-rules-defines-dpkg-build-api

DPKG_BUILD_API is an internal environment variable and should not be defined in the debian/rules script. The source package dpkg build API level cannot be properly declared in debian/rules because build drivers (such as dpkg-buildpackage) do not recognize it in this case.

Please remove the DPKG_BUILD_API declaration from the debian/rules script.

Severity:	warning
Experimental:	false

See also

• the dpkg-buildapi(1) manual page

• list of all the affected packages
• the source of this tag

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