diff -Nru fast5-0.6.4/debian/changelog fast5-0.6.5/debian/changelog
--- fast5-0.6.4/debian/changelog	2017-12-16 05:13:32.000000000 +0000
+++ fast5-0.6.5/debian/changelog	2018-02-18 01:43:22.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+fast5 (0.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream version
+  * Standards-Version 4.1.3
+  * Debhelper compat 11
+
+ -- Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:43:22 -0500
+
 fast5 (0.6.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Allow stderr output in autpkgtests to ignore notes
diff -Nru fast5-0.6.4/debian/compat fast5-0.6.5/debian/compat
--- fast5-0.6.4/debian/compat	2016-01-18 22:26:29.000000000 +0000
+++ fast5-0.6.5/debian/compat	2018-02-18 01:37:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9
+11
diff -Nru fast5-0.6.4/debian/control fast5-0.6.5/debian/control
--- fast5-0.6.4/debian/control	2017-12-16 05:12:36.000000000 +0000
+++ fast5-0.6.5/debian/control	2018-02-18 01:37:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>
 Build-Depends:
-	debhelper (>= 9),
+	debhelper (>= 11),
 	dh-python,
 	libhdf5-dev,
 	libboost-python-dev,
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 	python3-setuptools,
 	cython,
 	cython3
-Standards-Version: 4.1.2
+Standards-Version: 4.1.3
 Homepage: https://github.com/mateidavid/fast5
 Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/fast5.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/fast5.git
diff -Nru fast5-0.6.4/include/fast5/hdf5_tools.hpp fast5-0.6.5/include/fast5/hdf5_tools.hpp
--- fast5-0.6.4/include/fast5/hdf5_tools.hpp	2017-11-10 20:18:02.000000000 +0000
+++ fast5-0.6.5/include/fast5/hdf5_tools.hpp	2018-02-07 14:57:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -26,17 +26,13 @@
 #include <type_traits>
 
 /// Original HDF5 C API.
-namespace hdf5
-{
 #ifndef DOXY
 #include <hdf5.h>
 #endif
-}
 
 /// New C++ wrapper for the HDF5 C API.
 namespace hdf5_tools
 {
-using namespace hdf5;
 
 /// Exception class thrown by failed hdf5 operations.
 class Exception
@@ -2248,15 +2244,15 @@
         detail::HDF_Object_Holder src_attr_dtype_id_holder(
             detail::Util::wrap(H5Aget_type, src_attr_id_holder.id),
             detail::Util::wrapped_closer(H5Tclose));
-        if (hdf5::H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_INTEGER)
+        if (H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_INTEGER)
         {
-            if (hdf5::H5Tget_sign(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_SGN_NONE)
+            if (H5Tget_sign(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_SGN_NONE)
             {
                 unsigned long long tmp;
                 src_f.read(src_full_path, tmp);
                 dst_f.write_attribute(dst_full_path, tmp, src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
             }
-            else if (hdf5::H5Tget_sign(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_SGN_2)
+            else if (H5Tget_sign(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_SGN_2)
             {
                 long long tmp;
                 src_f.read(src_full_path, tmp);
@@ -2267,17 +2263,17 @@
                 throw Exception("error in H5Tget_sign");
             }
         }
-        else if (hdf5::H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_FLOAT)
+        else if (H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_FLOAT)
         {
             long double tmp;
             src_f.read(src_full_path, tmp);
             dst_f.write_attribute(dst_full_path, tmp, src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
         }
-        else if (hdf5::H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_STRING)
+        else if (H5Tget_class(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id) == H5T_STRING)
         {
             std::string tmp;
             src_f.read(src_full_path, tmp);
-            auto is_varlen = hdf5::H5Tis_variable_str(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
+            auto is_varlen = H5Tis_variable_str(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
             if (is_varlen < 0) throw Exception("error in H5Tis_variable_str");
             if (is_varlen)
             {
@@ -2286,12 +2282,12 @@
             else
             {
                 // not varlen; now deal with array-of-size-1 chars
-                int sz = hdf5::H5Tget_size(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
+                int sz = H5Tget_size(src_attr_dtype_id_holder.id);
                 if (sz == 0) throw Exception("error in H5Tget_size");
                 detail::HDF_Object_Holder src_attr_dspace_id_holder(
                     detail::Util::wrap(H5Aget_space, src_attr_id_holder.id),
                     detail::Util::wrapped_closer(H5Sclose));
-                auto dspace_type = hdf5::H5Sget_simple_extent_type(src_attr_dspace_id_holder.id);
+                auto dspace_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(src_attr_dspace_id_holder.id);
                 if (dspace_type == H5S_SCALAR)
                 {
                     dst_f.write_attribute(dst_full_path, tmp, 0);
diff -Nru fast5-0.6.4/src/hdf5-mod.cpp fast5-0.6.5/src/hdf5-mod.cpp
--- fast5-0.6.4/src/hdf5-mod.cpp	2017-11-10 20:18:02.000000000 +0000
+++ fast5-0.6.5/src/hdf5-mod.cpp	2018-02-07 14:57:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <fast5/hdf5_tools.hpp>
 
 using namespace std;
-using namespace hdf5;
 
 struct B
 {