Your message dated Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:15:03 +0100
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and subject line Re: debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc
breaks binary-only NMUs
has caused the Debian Bug report #766711,
regarding debhelper: Dependency added by dh_installdocs --link-doc breaks
binary-only NMUs
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Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20141022
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.3
afterstep package after recent binary-only NMU is no longer installable,
because dh_installdocs has added the following strict dependency on
arch-independent package:
afterstep-data (=2.2.12-2+b2)
See this log:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=afterstep&arch=i386&ver=2.2.12-2%2Bb2&stamp=1413508373
and compare it with the log of previous binary-only NMU from last year:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=afterstep&arch=i386&ver=2.2.12-2%2Bb1&stamp=1387741360
The policy in section 12.3 and footnote 116 refers to source versions,
not binary versions:
/usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in
/usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source
and the first package Depends on the second.[116]
[116] Please note that this does not override the section on changelog files
below, so the file /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz must refer
to the changelog for the current version of package in question. In
practice, this means that the sources of the target and the destination
of the symlink must be the same (same source package and version).
Regards,
robert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.90.20141023-1
ii dpkg 1.17.20
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.20
ii file 1:5.20-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.20
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-2
ii perl 5.20.1-2
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu3
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii dh-make 1.20140617
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
# Unsupportable!
tags 766711 wontfix
thanks
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:10:15 +0200 Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20141022
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 12.3
>
> afterstep package after recent binary-only NMU is no longer installable,
> because dh_installdocs has added the following strict dependency on
> arch-independent package:
> afterstep-data (=2.2.12-2+b2)
>
> See this log:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=afterstep&arch=i386&ver=2.2.12-2%2Bb2&stamp=1413508373
> and compare it with the log of previous binary-only NMU from last year:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=afterstep&arch=i386&ver=2.2.12-2%2Bb1&stamp=1387741360
>
>
> The policy in section 12.3 and footnote 116 refers to source versions,
> not binary versions:
> /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in
> /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source
> and the first package Depends on the second.[116]
>
> [116] Please note that this does not override the section on changelog files
> below, so the file /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz must refer
> to the changelog for the current version of package in question. In
> practice, this means that the sources of the target and the destination
> of the symlink must be the same (same source package and version).
>
>
> Regards,
> robert
>
>
> [...]
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.
~Niels
[1] This is not limited to debhelper. The reading of the policy
actually (implicitly) forbids link-doc between arch:all and arch:any
packages as the binNMU version is not the same as the source version.
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