Niels Thykier: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:36:46 +0200 Jens Reyer <jre.wine...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Package: debhelper >> Version: 11.2.1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi, >> >> I've run into this with src:wine: >> > > Hi, > > Thanks for the report. > >> [...] >> >> So Wine indeed builds fine without (fake)root, but dh_testroot returns >> false, while according to dh_testroot(1) it should return successfully. >> > > This happens because the documentation in dh_testroot(1) reflects the > draft initial implementation of R³. However, there was a change that > altered how dpkg and debhelper interact before the specification was > announced as stable. When I implemented that change, I forgot to update > the documentation in dh_testroot. > > The change has the advantage of decoupling debhelper from dpkg (e.g. > debhelper can now implement R³ without requiring a recent enough dpkg, > as dpkg will announce its support for R³). > > Please see #899125 for draft being proposed to debian-policy until I > have fixed the documentation in debhelper. It should be up to date and > reflect the current implementation. >
I have pushed the following change that I believe will fix this bug: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/commit/d95a2c9328c9e934d5cf7f6e577c3d36a6a3f228 > [...] >
