Package: git-dpm
Version: 0.10.0-1.1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Justification: renders package unusable
$ git-dpm import-new-upstream -p 1.65^{} --ptc --rebase-patched
../libfilter-perl_1.65.orig.tar.gz
/usr/bin/git-dpm: line 241: cd: null directory
This is due to the following change in bash 5.3:
a. Per POSIX, a null pathname argument to `cd' is now an error.
The attached patch fixes this.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages git-dpm depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21
ii git 1:2.51.0-1
Versions of packages git-dpm recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6
ii devscripts 2.25.19
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
ii xz-utils 5.8.1-1.1
Versions of packages git-dpm suggests:
ii pristine-tar 1.50+nmu2
pn sharutils <none>
-- no debconf information
--- git-dpm.sh.orig 2019-02-03 12:23:45.000000000 +0000
+++ git-dpm.sh 2025-09-14 12:08:19.768077810 +0100
@@ -238,7 +238,9 @@
function cdtoplevel() {
test -n "$gitdir" || return 1
checkworkingdir || return 1
- cd -- "$reldir" || return 1
+ if [ "$reldir" ]; then
+ cd -- "$reldir" || return 1
+ fi
reldir=""
}
