Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.18.24
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Stretch's versions of all apt frontends other than cupt already support
"Important: yes" packages, thus it'd be reasonable to allow them in Buster.
However, dpkg-gencontrol currently fails to copy the field into a generated
package. If I post-process it with a hack like:
.----
override_dh_gencontrol:
dh_gencontrol
sed -e '2i Important: yes' -i debian/${PACKAGE}/DEBIAN/control
`----
all is ok.
It is not documented in the Policy, I've filed #872587 asking for their
opinion.
If you'd want to test the behaviour of current frontends yourself, you can
use my test packages:
deb http://angband.pl/debian essimp main
(-src, https), key:
wget -qO- https://angband.pl/deb/archive.html|apt-key add -
"test-essential", "test-important"
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc5-debug-00121-gc6b5a5fd577f (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.29-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
ii make 4.1-9.1
ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2
ii perl 5.26.0-5
ii tar 1.29b-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
ii build-essential 12.3
ii clang-4.0 [c-compiler] 1:4.0.1-1
ii fakeroot 1.22-1
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:7.1.0-2
ii gcc-7 [c-compiler] 7.1.0-13
ii gnupg 2.1.23-2
ii gpgv 2.1.23-2
ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-3
ii tcc [c-compiler] 0.9.27~git20161217.cd9514ab-3
Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests:
ii debian-keyring 2017.05.28
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