Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.70
Severity: important
As seen in https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon/-/merge_requests/9,
upgrades from debhelper 11 to debhelper 12 by lintian-brush will sometimes
result in
files no longer being installed.
The relevant bit from the debhelper changelog appears to be:
The build systems meson and autoconf no longer explicitly set the --libexecdir
variable and thus relies on the build system default - which should be
/usr/libexec (per FHS 3.0,
adopted in Debian Policy 4.1.5).
If a particular upstream package does not use the correct default, the
parameter can often be passed manually via dh_auto_configure(1). E.g. via the
following example:
override_dh_auto_configure:
dh_auto_configure -- --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
Note the -- before the --libexecdir parameter.
Looking at the logs, it seems like the old build passed in
--libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
lintian-brush can automatically set this flag for packages that it upgrades to
debhelper 12, but ideally it would only do so for those packages that ship
anything in libexec.
-- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT
policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on:
ii devscripts 2.20.3
ii python3 3.8.2-3
ii python3-breezy 3.1.0-3
ii python3-debian 0.1.37
ii python3-distro-info 0.23
ii python3-dulwich 0.20.2-1
ii python3-iniparse 0.4-3
iu python3-ruamel.yaml 0.16.10-2
Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends:
ii dos2unix 7.4.0-2
ii gpg 2.2.20-1
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.1
ii lintian 2.80.0
ii python3-asyncpg 0.20.1-1+b1
ii python3-levenshtein 0.12.0-5+b1
ii python3-pyinotify 0.9.6-1.3
ii python3-toml 0.10.1-1
Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests:
pn gnome-pkg-tools <none>
ii postgresql-common 215
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