Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20130518
Severity: important
Dear Joey,
apparently the new functionality that allows debhelper to skip "unused"
commands is suffering from heuristics that are just a little too eager.
Specifically I am building a package [0] that uses maven-repo-helper to
install a jar into a local maven repository at /usr/share/maven-repo/ . The
relevant sequence is
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/jh_maven_repo_helper.pm
and contains:
--- snip ---
insert_after("jh_depends", "mh_installpoms");
insert_after("mh_installpoms", "mh_linkjars --skip-clean-poms");
insert_before("dh_clean", "mh_clean");
--- snip ---
The command that is not being run with debhelper 9.20130518 is "mh_linkjars
--skip-clear-poms", but it is executed successfully with debhelper 9.20120909
from testing. This *might* be due to the fact that the command is supposed to
run after a command that was introduced in the same sequence, but that is
simply a guess. Both commands (mh_{linkjars,installpoms}) do not have any
PROMISE in them and it is my understanding that commands without this should
never be removed from a sequence.
The build log contains:
--- debhelper 9.20130518 ---
fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh binary --with javahelper --with jh_maven_repo_helper
dh_testroot
dh_prep
dh_auto_install
jh_installjavadoc
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_perl
dh_link
jh_installlibs
jh_classpath
jh_manifest
jh_exec
jh_depends
mh_installpoms
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
---
-- debhelper 9.20120909 --
fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh binary --with javahelper --with jh_maven_repo_helper
dh_testroot
dh_prep
dh_installdirs
dh_auto_install
dh_install
jh_installjavadoc
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_installexamples
dh_installman
dh_installcatalogs
dh_installcron
dh_installdebconf
dh_installemacsen
dh_installifupdown
dh_installinfo
dh_installinit
dh_installmenu
dh_installmime
dh_installmodules
dh_installlogcheck
dh_installlogrotate
dh_installpam
dh_installppp
dh_installudev
dh_installwm
dh_installxfonts
dh_installgsettings
dh_bugfiles
dh_ucf
dh_lintian
dh_gconf
dh_icons
dh_perl
dh_usrlocal
dh_link
jh_installlibs
jh_classpath
jh_manifest
jh_exec
jh_depends
mh_installpoms
"mh_linkjars --skip-clean-poms"
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
---
You can see that the new debhelper version successfully prunes a number of
commands that do not have to be run, but unfortunately "mh_linkjars
--skip-clean-poms" is one of them, which renders maven-repo-helper unusable
with the new debhelper in this case.
[0] https://mentors.debian.net/package/robert-hooke
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-8
ii dpkg 1.16.10
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15
ii man-db 2.6.3-6
ii perl 5.14.2-21
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none>
-- no debconf information
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