On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > since the update of dpkg-dev from 1.15.4 to 1.15.5, my packages fail to
> > build with the following message:
> >
> > Can't call method "epoch" on an undefined value at
> > /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Version.pm line 132.
> > dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps returned exit code 2
> >
> > Marking as grave as I'm now unable to build any packages.
>
> Care to give some examples at least? It has been working for me
> with my own packages at least...
>
> I tried with rsyslog and it worked.
Ok, reproduced with tracker. Looking up what's going on.
> My bet is that it fails when it encounters a specific symbol file
> with a possibly invalid version.
It doesn't seem to be the case. It fails doing
$dependencies{$cur_field}{$subdep} eq '' when the first arg is a Dpkg::Version
object and not a string.
So it's definitely an RC bug.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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