Package: debhelper
Version: 13.7.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: max-jul...@pogner.at
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
When using ``dh_testdir``, the following error messages appeared to me:
> Use of uninitialized value $v in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 1767, <$fd> line 9.
> Use of uninitialized value $v in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 1768, <$fd> line 9.
However, dh_testdir to the best of my knowledge continued normally after that.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
My investigation suggests, that Dh_Lib.pm assumes the source field "Section:"
to be present always in the file ``debian/control``, although
https://manpages.debian.org/sid/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html documents
the "Section" source field to be optional (in that other source fields are
explicitly marked "required" or "recommended", but this source field is
neither).
I therefore think, that either
a) the documentation deb-src-control is incomplete and the source field
"Section:" should be marked as required there, or
b) the Dh_Lib.pm should assign some default value to variable
$source_section after the loop ``while (<$fd>) {`` in lines 1786 to 1835 has
finished, or
c) Dh_Lib.pm line 1994, which reads
> $package_sections{$package} = _strip_spaces($field_values{'section'} //
$source_section);;
should be changed to cope with the possibility that variable
$source_section has value ``undef``, or
d) something else?
Please advise what would be the next step, maybe i can provide a patch then.
best regards,
Max
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20220109.1
ii dh-autoreconf 20
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.13.0-1
ii dpkg 1.21.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.7
ii dwz 0.14-1
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.7.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.7
ii man-db 2.10.2-1
ii perl 5.34.0-4
ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none>
-- no debconf information
