unmerge 766795
reassign 766795 afterstep
tags 766795 -wontfix -patch -jessie-ignore
retitle 766795 afterstep not binnmu safe
thanks.
Niels Thykier wrote:
Hi Robert, Simon and Axel,
It is not possible for debhelper to provide a *policy compliant*
link-doc *between arch:all and arch:any* packages under binNMUs[1].
Accordingly, the use of --link-doc between such packages now triggers a
warning (or a flat error under compat 10).
I have taken the liberty of marking the bug as wontfix (read: "cantfix")
and closing it.
Unmerging the afterstep bug, removing the tags it picked up as part of
the merge and returning it to the afterstep package.
The story so-far as I understand it
* I discovered that afterstep was uninstallable and not binnmu safe and
filed a bug.
* The maintainer of the afterstep package blamed debhelper and
reassigned and merged my bug. He also stated he would upload a
"workaround" of removing misc-depends. Soon afterwards he uploaded a
workaround
* jcristau (who I assume was wearing a release team hat) declared that
this workaround was unacceptable and that the package must be fixed to
not use link-doc between arch dependent and arch independent packages.
The afterstep maintainer did not appear to respond to this.
* the debehlper maintainers declared that link-doc between arch any and
arch all packages was unsupported and took steps to explicitly block
such binnmus.
* There were some problems with the blocking code and it was reverted.
So the afterstep binary package has a manual dependency on the data
package which is strictly versioned on on the source version. The other
binary packages don't seem to be using link-doc. Building a binnmu will
result in dependencies that the debhelper maintainers claim are not
policy compliant.
I have not altered the serverity of the bug. Personally i'm on the fence
as to whether the bug in it's present state (essentially a latent bug if
anyone builds a binnmu) is rc or not but i'll leave the descision to others.
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