Package: devscripts Version: 2.11.4 Severity: minor "dpkg-depcheck -b" (and thus dpkg-genbuilddeps) is not working on my system with some (few) multi-arch (foreign) packages, especially 2 versions of zlib1g:
tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ dpkg-depcheck -b sleep 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'zlib1g' is not: ambiguous package name 'zlib1g' with more than one installed instance Use --help for help about querying packages. dpkg -L failed: at /usr/bin/dpkg-depcheck line 260 tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ LANG=C dpkg -L zlib1g dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'zlib1g' is not: ambiguous package name 'zlib1g' with more than one installed instance Use --help for help about querying packages. tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ LANG=C dpkg -L zlib1g:amd64 /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/zlib1g /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/copyright /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/changelog.gz /usr/lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ LANG=C dpkg -L zlib1g:i386 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.6 /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/zlib1g /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/copyright /usr/share/doc/zlib1g/changelog.gz /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ dpkg --get-selections zlib1g zlib1g:amd64 install zlib1g:i386 install so dpkg-depcheck has to be run without "-b" (or any option implying -b, like -d, -m), which works, still: (thus severity minor) tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ dpkg-depcheck -a sleep 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following files did not appear to belong to any package: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive Packages used: libc6:amd64 coreutils tim@rohan:~/src/deb$ dpkg-depcheck sleep 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following files did not appear to belong to any package: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive Packages used: libc6:amd64 coreutils -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- Not present -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (100, 'proposed-updates'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii perl 5.14.2-9 ii python 2.7.2-10 ii python2.6 2.6.7-4 ii python2.7 2.7.2-8 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.13-1 ii curl 7.24.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.20.1 ii debian-keyring 2012.02.22 ii dput 0.9.6.2 ii equivs 2.0.9 ii fakeroot 1.18.2-1 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4 ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.58-1 ii libjson-perl 2.53-1 ii libparse-debcontrol-perl 2.005-3 ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.714-1 ii liburi-perl 1.59-1 ii libwww-perl 6.04-1 ii lintian 2.5.5 ii man-db 2.6.1-1 ii patch 2.6.1-3 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii python-debian 0.1.21 ii python-magic 5.10-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.6 ii strace 4.5.20-2.3 ii unzip 6.0-5 ii wdiff 1.1.0-2 ii wget 1.13.4-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1 ii build-essential 11.5 ii cvs-buildpackage <none> ii devscripts-el <none> ii gnuplot 4.4.0-1.1 ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.5-1 ii libauthen-sasl-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-3 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> ii libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii libyaml-syck-perl <none> ii mutt 1.5.21-5 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:5.9p1-3 ii svn-buildpackage <none> ii w3m 0.5.3-5 -- no debconf information -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
