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Andreas Metzler:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 13.3.4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> in #929165 Hideki wanted to use rm_conffile to remove junk from earlier
> versions, notably files containing spaces and wildcards in their name:
> ./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,
> ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg
> ./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg, *
>
> Which would be straightforward enough, adding debian/maintscript with
> these contents (using "hello" as package name for demonstration
> purposes):
> rm_conffile '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,
> ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg' '2.10-2.2~' 'hello'
> rm_conffile '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg, *'
> '2.10-2.2~' 'hello'
>
> Which works perfectly well with ancient (DH 9 compat level) but throws
> an error with compat level 13:
> -----------
> (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ dh_installdeb --no-act
> --verbose
> dh_installdeb: error: The current conffile path for rm_conffile must be
> present and absolute, got
> '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,
> -----------
>
> Looking at /usr/bin/dh_installdeb one finds a check for a literal "/" as
> leading character of the first argument of rm_conffile. Just for the fun
> of it, I have try escaping instead of quoting, but the check splits on
> space.
> ------------
> (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ cat debian/hello.maintscript
> rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,\
> ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg '2.10-2.2~' 'hello'
> rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg,\ \*
> '2.10-2.2~' 'hello'
> (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ dh_installdeb --no-act
> --verbose
> dh_installdeb: error: The version for rm_conffile
> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,\ is not valid, got
> ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg
> ------------
>
> cu Andreas
>
Hi Andreas,
Does it work correctly when you use the substitution feature in
debhelper 13 to insert the space?
It should be something like:
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,${SPACE}ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg
~Niels
