Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 patch Control: affects -1 src:systemd Control: affects -1 src:systemd-udeb
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:22:39 +0100 Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: dh-exec > Severity: important > Version: 0.30 > Control: affects -1 src:util-linux > X-Debbugs-CC: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > dpkg 1.23.0 made the parser used in > Dpkg::BuildProfiles::parse_build_profiles more strict. It now > rejects Build-Profiles strings which are not surrounded by '<' and > '>'. This makes the util-linux build fail with: > > dh-exec-filter-build-profiles: error: '!nodoc' is not a valid build profile restriction formula > > An example line in debian/util-linux.install is: > > <!nodoc> usr/share/man/man8/sulogin.8 > > After some discussion with Guillem, we'd like to propose this > minimal diff to dh-exec, to make it work with the newer dpkg: > > > diff -Nru dh-exec-0.30/lib/dh-exec-filter-build-profiles dh-exec- 0.30+nmu1/lib/dh-exec-filter-build-profiles > --- dh-exec-0.30/lib/dh-exec-filter-build-profiles 2024-05-19 12:30:01.000000000 +0200 > +++ dh-exec-0.30+nmu1/lib/dh-exec-filter-build-profiles 2025- 12-17 23:02:26.000000000 +0100 > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ > if (!/<([^>]*)>/) { > $line_concerned = 1; > } > - while (/<([^>]*)>/) { > + while (/(<([^>]*)>)/) { > $line_concerned |= profile_concerned ($1, $_); > s/<([^>]*)>\s+//; > } > > > I've verified this fixes the util-linux build. > > I understood Guillem would appreciate it if a fix could land soon in dh-exec. This issue is making all my packages that use build profiles + dh-exec FTBFS now, due to the upload of dpkg 1.23, so bumping severity. I can confirm the above diff fixes the issue.
