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and subject line Bug#870288: fixed in equivs 2.1.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #870288,
regarding equivs: silently ignores Essential flag
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Package: equivs
Version: 2.1.0
Severity: normal
Hi!
If the control file includes an Essential flag (or not-yet-official
Important), such flags are silently ignored. I'd expect them to be copied
to the new package, or at least an error or warning.
Beside testing, Essential dummy packages are useful in case when some
package managers insist on removing packages because of an arch:any/all
version mismatch, or even because of a bogus Recommends that conflicts with
an equivs package. It'd be better to "apt-mark hold" the equivs package,
but handling of holds tends to be buggy.
For example, the following equivs-control (commented-out lines removed):
.----
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Package: foo
Essential: yes
Description: test of essential packages
blah blah
`----
produces a package with:
.----
Package: foo
Version: 1.0
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 9
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: test of essential packages
blah blah
`----
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc3-debug-00026-g0172821546b5 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages equivs depends on:
ii debhelper 10.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1
ii make 4.1-9.1
ii perl 5.26.0-4
equivs recommends no packages.
equivs suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: equivs
Source-Version: 2.1.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
equivs, 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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
gregor herrmann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated equivs package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 03:49:33 +0200
Source: equivs
Binary: equivs
Architecture: source
Version: 2.1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: gregor herrmann <[email protected]>
Closes: 870288
Description:
equivs - Circumvent Debian package dependencies
Changes:
equivs (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
.
[ Damyan Ivanov ]
* change Priority from 'extra' to 'optional'
.
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* Update Vcs-* headers for switch to salsa.debian.org
.
[ Laurent Baillet ]
* fix lintian file-contains-trailing-whitespace warning
.
[ Johannes 'josch' Schauer ]
* support Essential field (closes: #870288)
.
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Use HTTPS in debian/copyright.
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.2.1.
* Remove trailing whitespace from debian/*.
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