Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20140228
Severity: important
Hi Joey,
The potential bug referred to in #676777, namely that the strictly
versioned dependency introduced by dh_installdocs --link-doc can cause
packages to no longer be installable, is occurring with my
gcc-mingw-w64 packages.
Admittedly the way I'm using versions is a bit unconventional, but I
don't think it goes against policy... I have a simple, native source
version (12 currently in unstable, 13 in the package I'm working on),
but all the binary packages are built using my package source along
with gcc-4.8-source (gcc-4.9-source in the version I'm working on),
and use binary version of the form ${gcc:Version}+${source:Version},
e.g. 4.9.0-2+13.
My package correctly handled the documentation link with a strictly
versioned dependency on the binary version. With the fix for #676777,
dh_installdocs also introduces a strict dependency on the source
version, which can't be satisfied...
I'm afraid my perl-fu isn't up to fixing this quickly. In any case I'm
not sure what the correct fix should be; I guess the right thing to do
would be to determine the binary version of the packages being linked
to and use that, but I don't know how to go about that within
debhelper.
Regards,
Stephen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.51.20140425-1
ii dpkg 1.17.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.9
ii file 1:5.17-1
ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1
ii perl 5.18.2-2+b1
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 0.63
-- no debconf information
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