Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.24
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Want to build quagga 1.1 on a Jessie machine
won't build because debhelper < version 10
debhelper won't build because dpkg-dev < 1.18
tried to build newer dpkg
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
dpkg-buildpackage in dpkg-1.18.24 on a Jessie machine
* What was the outcome of this action?
build failed
* What outcome did you expect instead?
build succeeded
scripts/Dpkg/Source/Archive.pm declares options to the tar command which
are not present before 1.28-1. These options are passed to tar during
the build tests causing the build to fail with Jessie's version 1.27.
tar (>= 1.28-1) is declared in Depends but is not declared in Build-Depends
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.48 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C
(charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1
ii tar 1.29b-1.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 1.4.7
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
