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and subject line Bug#1002800: fixed in debhelper 13.7
has caused the Debian Bug report #1002800,
regarding debhelper: run dh_installalternatives after dh_link?
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Package: debhelper
Version: 13.6
Severity: wishlist
Thanks for dh_installalternatives! I've wanted this for literally
decades, and discovered it this evening; it's allowed me to convert a
few more maintainer scripts to being managed entirely by debhelper.
In a couple of cases, I've found that I have existing alternatives
pointing to symlinks created by dh_link. Arguably I suppose it might be
possible to chase the symlink through to its ultimate target, but the
intermediate target shows up in "update-alternatives --display" and so
has some documentation value; I also suspect that changing the
alternative target would require some care to preserve sysadmin choices.
I'd therefore prefer to leave these alternatives as they are when
translating them to dh_installalternatives.
However, dh_installalternatives checks that the alternative target
exists, and inconveniently it runs before dh_link. I've had to work
around this in two different packages so far by creating symlinks
manually:
https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/commit/6575c90a6ba442634f55947bc84c998c3fb2b4fe
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/trn4/-/commit/8fd3325a740ac1655956d283aa5d64d77440d0cc
This seems like enough to be worth filing a bug. Might it make sense to
move dh_installalternatives to just after dh_link in the root sequence
so that this sort of hack isn't needed?
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Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 13.7
Done: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 09:42:46 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 13.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Closes: 994204 1002800 1004939
Changes:
debhelper (13.7) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_installalternatives: Improve validation of alternative files to
catch some "obvious" copy-waste mistakes.
* dh: Invoke dh_installalternatives after dh_link in compat 14 or
later. Thanks to Colin Watson for the suggestion.
(Closes: #1002800)
* cmake.pm: Drop -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=on in compat v14. Thanks to
Vagrant Cascadian for the suggestion and the investigative work on
this topic. (Closes: #1004939)
* debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist.pod: New file.
* debhelper.pod: Move list of supported compat levels and the related
upgrade checklist into debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist.pod.
This means you now need `man 7 debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist`
to see the upgrade checklist.
* dh_installdebconf: Support -D/--define command line parameters
(mirroring those from dh_installdeb).
* Dh_Lib.pm: Cope with "?=" as assignment operator in substvars files
to be future proof with (possible) planned addition of "optional
substvars. At the moment, debhelper will still always use "=" when
adding a substvar but it will now preserve "?=" operator if an
existing substvar is modified.
.
[ Guillem Jover ]
* autoconf.pm: Add support for autotest test suites by passing the
TESTSUITEFLAGS environment variable to `make test`.
.
[ Dave Jones ]
* Rewrite handling of stop services to use the `preinst` when using
--no-restart-after-upgrade. This fixes a regression caused by
the fix for #989155. (Closes: #994204)
.
[ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
* dh_installmenu: Respect DPKG_ROOT when checking for update-menus.
Note this implementation assumes update-menus is present both
inside and outside the chroot to activate. If it is absent on
either side, the update-menus call is skipped.
.
[ Gioele Barabucci ]
* dh_installsysusers: Invoke systemd-sysusers even when DPKG_ROOT
is set (relying on `--root`).
* dh_installpam: In compat 14, install pam snippets into
`/usr/lib/pam.d` instead of `/etc/pam.d`. Remember to remove
(now) obsolete conffiles when you bump to compat 14.
.
[ Andreas Hübner ]
* debhelper.pod: Correct spelling of DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
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