Package: src:folks
Version: 0.15.9-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
This is a bad packaging practice which happens way to often within all
the GTK/Gnome packaging (cloning for mutter as well). The scenario goes
as follows:
- upload a new package
- build fails on "all", not building the "common" package.
- build succeeds on other architectures, in most cases
because the packagers don't run the tests, or ignore test
results.
- the packages then are not installable anymore until the
uploads are in sync, blocking any other builds depending
on these packages. This can take a long, if the uploader
goes to vacation, or a new package build takes ages (yes,
LLVM had that issue as well, and LLVM builds take days).
proposed patch attached. Note that (>= ${source:Version}) has the same
problem, and doesn't help either. Feel free to use some other version
constraint than the upstream version.
diff -Nru folks-0.15.9/debian/control folks-0.15.9/debian/control
--- folks-0.15.9/debian/control 2024-03-23 12:41:20.000000000 +0100
+++ folks-0.15.9/debian/control 2024-03-24 22:06:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
Package: libfolks26
Architecture: any
-Depends: folks-common (= ${source:Version}),
+Depends: folks-common (>= ${upstream:Version}),
${misc:Depends},
${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: libfolks-eds26
diff -Nru folks-0.15.9/debian/rules folks-0.15.9/debian/rules
--- folks-0.15.9/debian/rules 2024-03-23 12:41:20.000000000 +0100
+++ folks-0.15.9/debian/rules 2024-03-24 22:06:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -35,3 +35,8 @@
dh_auto_test --no-parallel -- --timeout-multiplier 3
override_dh_gnome_clean:
+
+
+override_dh_gencontrol:
+ dh_gencontrol -- \
+ -Vupstream:Version=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -S Version | sed
's/-[^-]*$$//')
