Bug#926669: [RFC] Feature suggestion: extend dpkg-shlibdeps Build-Depends-Package to support multiple package candidates

2019-04-08 Thread Frank Schaefer
cause it avoids breaking backwards compatibility. With the first approach, any package using the new syntax in its symbols files would completely lose this functionality on dpkg releases that don't understand the new syntax (unmodded dpkg doesn't completely fail, but it appears to simply not match a

Bug#920974: dpkg 1.19.4 FTBFS with t-file test failure

2019-01-30 Thread Frank Schaefer
-file.c, where vb.buf is apparently not guaranteed to be NULL-terminated. I'm honestly not sure how this test ever passed under these circumstances. Change the test_str() to "test_mem(vb.buf, ==, ref_data, strlen(ref_data))", and I get a solid pass. -- Frank Schaefer "If a