Package: haskell-devscripts-minimal Version: 0.13.8 Severity: important Hello,
The following code in dh_haskell_depends generates the content of the
${haskell:Recommends} substvar for a libghc-*-doc binary package:
recommends=` \
find debian/$pkg -name \*.html -exec hxwls -r \{\} \; \
| sed -e 's,^file:/,,' \
| grep ^/ \
| cut -d# -f1 \
| LANG=C sort -u \
| xargs -r dpkg -S \
| cut -d: -f1 \
| sort -u \
| sed -e :a -e '$!N; s/\n/, /; ta'`
dev=`echo $pkg | sed -e 's/^[^-]\+-\(.\+\)-doc/lib${hc}-\1-dev/'`
grep -av '^#' debian/control | grep $dev > /dev/null \
&& recommends="$recommends, $dev" \
|| recommends="$recommends"
This can generate dependencies on Essential packages, which should never
happen. For example, in the documentation for version 5.4.1 of
libghc-propellor-dev, there is a link to /etc/default. util-linux
contains /etc/default/hwclock, so `dpkg -S /etc/default` will return
util-linux, and so the ${haskell:Recommends} substvar will contain
util-linux. And in fact we get
Recommends: apt, passwd, util-linux, base-files, libc-bin, bsdmainutils
which is definitely wrong.
This could be fixed by filtering essential packages out of
${haskell:Recommends}, but in fact I think that this code is overeager
in adding recommendations, and should probably just be dropped.
I am working around this bug by dropping ${haskell:Recommends} from the
libghc-propellor-doc binary package stanza in debian/control.
--
Sean Whitton
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