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and subject line Bug#498666: fixed in debhelper 7.1.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #498666,
regarding debhelper: please set an empty value for misc:Depends when not
defined (was: Re: another patch/tag)
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Package: debhelper
Severity: wishlist
Version: 7.0.17
Hi Joey,
Sorry for the large reference, but hope it is useful.
Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:31:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I like the general idea of this tag. But given the fact that only
>> > rarely used debhelper commands actually use misc:Depends I would either
>> > first check if the program actually uses those and only then issue the
>> > tag or would go for info for now and discuss this on debian-devel first
>> > before making it a warning.
>>
>> I'd also get a lot of warnings from this since I usually only list
>> misc:Depends for the packages that actually need it, but there's no
>> simple way of telling which binary packages would pick up misc:Depends.
>>
>> Unfortunately, listing it without having anything use it results in a
>> warning during the package build, so a lot of people fix the warning by
>> removing it (understandably).
>
> Right, I thought of that, too but then forgot to mention it in the mail.
> This should probably be changed in dpkg-dev or debhelper before making
> this a warning (e.g. by always defining misc:Depends to the empty string
> if it is not used).
I don't believe dpkg-dev should do anything about it (in any case it should
better just don't warn at all), dh_gencontrol could check for the presence
of misc:Depends in the substvars file before calling dpkg-gencontrol and
add an empty value.
>
> Gruesse,
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Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 7.1.0
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debhelper_7.1.0.dsc
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_7.1.0.dsc
debhelper_7.1.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_7.1.0.tar.gz
debhelper_7.1.0_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_7.1.0_all.deb
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
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
Source: debhelper
Binary: debhelper
Architecture: source all
Version: 7.1.0
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
Closes: 370823 498460 498666 500836
Changes:
debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
.
* dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
with ".txt". Closes: #498460
* dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
* dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
* Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
Closes: #370823
* Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
that uses them. Affected options are:
-x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
--include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
--restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
--libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
--dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
--dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
--language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
* If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
* To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
option. This will be converted back to an error later.
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