Your message dated Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:11:41 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: debhelper: dh_installdebconf: Must bump versioned dependency in ${misc:Depends} has caused the Debian Bug report #395166, regarding dh_installdebconf: Should try to figure out the debconf version needed to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.40 Severity: important I fear (see below) this might even be RC, it affects many packages built with debhelper. Currently, dh_installdebconf adds to ${misc:Depends} debconf ( >= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 However, at least one important change to debconf is much younger and only implemented since 1.4.69 (which was post-sarge), and that is the addition of the error template. Since maintainer scripts should affix dh_* lines with "|| true", the maintainer script will not fail. However, an error will usually only be displayed if something of high urgency has happened. In this case it is usually crucial that the admin know what has happened and how to fix the situation. With the error message being implemented, there will probably be many cases where such information is hard to find elsewhere. This has hit us (in a particular strange case, with our sid package and woody versions of grep and debconf...) in bug #395032, but there may be many more packages in the archive that suffer from this problem. The reason why I report this as non-RC is that if a package depends on debconf, the installed debconf will probably be upgraded and configured before that package during dist-upgrade, which is the recommended procedure of upgrading. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.15-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.10.28 Package building tools for Debian ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-2 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.4-8sarge5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0 manage translated Debconf template -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:31:09 +0200 Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 5.0.40 > Severity: important > > I fear (see below) this might even be RC, it affects many packages built > with debhelper. > > Currently, dh_installdebconf adds to ${misc:Depends} > > debconf ( >= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 > > However, at least one important change to debconf is much younger and > only implemented since 1.4.69 (which was post-sarge), and that is the > addition of the error template. Since maintainer scripts should affix > dh_* lines with "|| true", the maintainer script will not fail. > > [...] Hi, Thanks for filing this bug. Sadly, at this point, the bug has become obsolete as all supported versions of Debian ships with debconf (>= 1.5.36.1). Therefore it does not make sense to apply the proposed patch either. Should debconf introduce a new feature of similar nature, I hope we can solve the debhelper in a more timely fashion. ~Niels
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