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and subject line Bug#1141433: fixed in debhelper 14.3
has caused the Debian Bug report #1141433,
regarding debhelper: Essential packages lack Pre-Depends in compat level 14
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Package: debhelper
Version: 14.2
Severity: important
According to debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist(7), "Essential: yes"
packages should have automatic Pre-Depends on the libraries they need:
,----
| Additionally, for Essential: yes packages that manually promoted
| ${shlibs:Depends} into Pre-Depends field, dh_shlibdeps will handle this
| automatically as well (see the next compat item).
`----
,----
| - The dh_shlibdeps tool now defaults to using ${shlibs:Pre-Depends} for
| packages that are Essential: yes.
`----
However when I tested that, Essential packages only had libc6 in Depends
rather than Pre-Depends. A simple example can be found in the dh14
branch at https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/hostname.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 14.3
Done: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
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.
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.
Niels Thykier <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debhelper package)
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:47:44 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 14.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Closes: 1141433
Changes:
debhelper (14.3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_shlibdeps: fix off-by-one in compat check and migrate
to `dpkg`'s `--package` option. Thanks to Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
(Closes: #1141433)
* debhelper.pod: Explicitly mention that a global `DH_COMPAT` is not
recommended. Thanks to Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
.
[ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
* Test autoscripts templates with shellcheck in `debhelper`'s own
test suite
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