Package: debhelper Version: 12.1.1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1 Severity: important Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer, The `dh_installsystemduser` script contains: ``` # PROMISE: DH NOOP WITHOUT tmp(usr/lib/systemd/user) user.service ``` This indicates to `dh` that the script will do nothing unless there's a `usr/lib/systemd/user` folder in the package temporary folder or there's a `package.user.service` file in the `debian` directory. Unfortunately, there are a few cases where this will declare a NOOP where there actually was work to do: * There's only `package.user.timer` (or `socket`, `target`, `path`) files * There's only `package@.user.service` files * Any combination of the above In these cases, `dh` won't even bother to call into `dh_installsystemduser`, since it thinks it won't do anything interesting. The fix for the first bullet is simply to add `user.socket user.target user.path user.timer` to the `PROMISE: DH NOOP WITHOUT` line. The second seems harder, the NOOP engine seems to assume that any package-related files will be called `package.somthing` but these files are called `package@.something` which doesn't seem to be representable. A workaround is to (rather lamely) override the stage in `debian/rules`: ```make %: dh $@ override_dh_installsystemduser: dh_installsystemduser ``` since this bypasses the skip-check and runs the helper regardless. Although this was seen on the Ubuntu packaging of debhelper, it appears to still be the case in the trunk version: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/blob/master/dh_installsystemduser#L86 Thanks, Andy -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers bionic-updates APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.5.5-050505-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf 17 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.040-1.1~build1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii dwz 0.12-2 ii file 1:5.32-2ubuntu0.3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3 ii man-db 2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1 ii perl 5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.201701 -- no debconf information
