Hi, I need help to verify this fix.
On 08/11/16 20:56, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: amanda-common
> Version: 1:3.3.9-2
> Severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org
>
> This package contains binary Perl modules but doesn't depend on perlapi-*
> (currently perlapi-5.24.1).
>
> Quoting the Debian Perl Policy 4.4.2 ("Binary and Other Architecture
> Dependent Modules"):
>
> Additionally, all binary modules (regardless of their installation
> directory) and any other modules installed into $Config{vendorarch} must
> depend on the expansion of perlapi-$Config{debian_abi} using the Config
> module. If $Config{debian_abi} is empty or not set, $Config{version}
> must be used.
>
> This used to work (since #582220) but seems to have regressed recently
> with 1:3.3.9-1 that switched to dh-style debian/rules, dropping the
> 'dh_perl -a usr/lib/amanda/perl' call. The default dh behaviour doesn't
> know where to look for the private directory (which currently seems to
> be /usr/lib/<triplet>/amanda/perl). Possibly something like
>
> override_dh_perl:
> dh_perl /usr/lib/*/amanda/perl
I think the flag -V is needed, but the generated depends still lack
perlapi-*
Depends: adduser,
bsd-mailx | mailx,
debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver,
update-inetd,
perl (>= 5.24.1~rc3-3),
libc6 (>= 2.15),
libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2),
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1),
libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
>
> will do the trick.
>
> Note that this is the root cause for #839603 / #839392: if the package had
> had the correct dependencies, it would have been automatically binNMU'd
> by the release team along with the other 600+ packages during the Perl
> 5.24 transition.
>
> Even when this is fixed, partial upgrades of amanda-common from 1:3.3.9-1
> without upgrading perl will be a problem, particularly as Ubuntu has
> made a release with something based on 1:3.3.9-1. It looks like we need
> to add a Breaks on the perl side to make sure broken combinations can't
> happen.
Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz
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