Debian Bug report logs - #769843
dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:34:48 +0100

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.21
Severity: normal

The dpkg-maintscript-helper man page claims that symlink_to_dir needs
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.5). But the relative symlink feature in
symlink_to_dir was introduced in 1.17.14. This should be noted in the
man page.

A package that follows the man page is RC buggy. Therefore filing this
as severity normal, not minor.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-7+b1
ii  libc6        2.19-13
ii  liblzma5     5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b1
ii  libselinux1  2.3-2
ii  tar          1.27.1-2+b1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt  1.0.9.3

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 769843@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>, 769843@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#769843: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:43:46 +0100

Hi!

On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 00:34:48 +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.21
> Severity: normal

> The dpkg-maintscript-helper man page claims that symlink_to_dir needs
> Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.5). But the relative symlink feature in
> symlink_to_dir was introduced in 1.17.14. This should be noted in the
> man page.

Yeah, I also noticed this the other day. Also the fixes for
dir_to_symlink to work with relative symlinks were added in 1.17.13.

> A package that follows the man page is RC buggy. Therefore filing this
> as severity normal, not minor.

I've fixed this now locally by bumping the version for both symlink
commands to just 1.17.14, which avoids translation work, and
targetting 1.17.22.

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #15 received at 769843@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>

To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

Cc: 769843@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#769843: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:21:41 +0100

Hi Guillem,

On Monday 17 November 2014 01:43:46, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I've fixed this now locally by bumping the version for both symlink
> commands to just 1.17.14, which avoids translation work, and
> targetting 1.17.22.

Thanks. It seems a build-depends is also required, see #770421. Maybe 
you should mention that in the man page, too?

Cheers,
Stefan

Message #20 received at 769843@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>, 769843@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#769843: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:46:24 +0100

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2014 01:43:46, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I've fixed this now locally by bumping the version for both symlink
> > commands to just 1.17.14, which avoids translation work, and
> > targetting 1.17.22.
> 
> Thanks. It seems a build-depends is also required, see #770421. Maybe 
> you should mention that in the man page, too?

Technically, it's debhelper (dh_installdeb) that needs to be updated in
Build-Depends. You need debhelper >= 9.20131213 (first version that knew
about that command).

And you want to file a bug report against debhelper so that it generates
a pre-dependency with 1.17.14 instead of 1.17.5.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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Message #25 received at 769843@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>

To: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

Cc: 769843@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#769843: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Wrong pre-dependency information in man page

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:53:09 +0100

On Friday 21 November 2014 13:46:24, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Technically, it's debhelper (dh_installdeb) that needs to be updated
> in Build-Depends. You need debhelper >= 9.20131213 (first version
> that knew about that command).
> 
> And you want to file a bug report against debhelper so that it
> generates a pre-dependency with 1.17.14 instead of 1.17.5.

You are right. Will do.

Cheers,
Stefan

Message #30 received at 769843-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 769843-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#769843 marked as pending

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:14:54 +0000

tag 769843 pending
thanks

Hello,

Bug #769843 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

    http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=e04dd68

---
commit e04dd68c0a36e465a656a9e78830dcf28e455242
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 17 00:55:20 2014 +0100

    man: Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
    
    The minimal version for dir_to_symlink with all current features is
    1.17.13, and for symlink_to_dir is 1.17.14. But to make it simpler,
    let's just say the latter. This also avoids unnecessary translator
    work.
    
    Missed in commits 7fe9dcdd57c083180a7994957d1e5217d28e970a and
    a92a3ac5056363e9c21c48187f6ff965481742f4.
    
    Closes: #769843

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7e34751..ec5b9cd 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ dpkg (1.17.22) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * Add version introducing --ctrl-tarfile in dpkg-deb(1) man page.
+  * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
+    to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
 
   [ Updated programs translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim).

Message #35 received at 769843-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 769843-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#769843: fixed in dpkg 1.17.22

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:19:16 +0000

Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.17.22

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 769843@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (supplier of updated dpkg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:02:34 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: libdpkg-dev dpkg dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.17.22
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description:
 dpkg       - Debian package management system
 dpkg-dev   - Debian package development tools
 dselect    - Debian package management front-end
 libdpkg-dev - Debian package management static library
 libdpkg-perl - Dpkg perl modules
Closes: 752123 766724 766758 767573 767918 767934 768485 768599 768852 769119 769211 769843 770280 771237 771255 771256
Changes:
 dpkg (1.17.22) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * Add version introducing --ctrl-tarfile in dpkg-deb(1) man page.
   * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
     to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
   * Reintroduce update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
     compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/. There are still packages
     using those paths, but the relevant lintian check did not list any,
     so this got removed prematurely.
   * Add Breaks on old man-db, fontconfig and readahead-fedora packages using
     awaiting triggers, as they produce trigger cycles. Closes: #768599
   * Escape package and architecture names on control file parsing warning,
     as those get injected into a variable that is used as a format string,
     and they come from the package fields, which are under user control.
     Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.0. Fixes CVE-2014-8625. Closes: #768485
     Reported by Joshua Rogers <megamansec@gmail.com>.
   * Do not match partial field names in control files. Closes: #769119
     Regression introduced in dpkg 1.10.
   * Fix build on Mac OS X. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.11.
     Reported by Dominyk Tiller <dominyktiller@gmail.com>.
   * Normalize tar entry uid and gid from the current system only in dpkg
     unpack. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #769211
   * Restore multiple processing instances check for packages and archives
     specified on the command-line. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.20.
   * Fail on trigger processing when it is required to progress. Trigger
     processing is sometimes required and sometimes opportunistic, and we
     should only fail on the former but ignore the latter. Closes: #768852
   * Do not ignore trigger cycles for direct dependencies, these are just
     normal trigger cycles, and as such should not be special cased.
   * Register all pending triggers for deferred processing when being called
     as «dpkg --configure pkgname…». This is a mostly conformant workaround
     for frontends like apt that do not correctly call «dpkg --configure -a»
     or «dpkg --triggers-only -a» after their normal runs, and leave packages
     in triggers-pending and triggers-awaited states. Closes: #766758
 .
   [ Updated programs translations ]
   * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
   * Danish (Joe Dalton).
   * French (Sébastien Poher).
   * German (Sven Joachim).
   * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #771255
   * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
   * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #766724, #770280
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
   * Turkish (Mert Dirik).
   * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân)
 .
   [ Updated scripts translations ]
   * French (Sébastien Poher).
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
 .
   [ Updated manpages translations ]
   * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #767934
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #752123
   * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #767573
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
 .
   [ Updated dselect translations ]
   * Danish (Joe Dalton).
   * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #771237
   * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #767918
   * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #771256
   * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
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