On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 01:43:22PM +0100, Sven Geuer wrote:
> since v12 debhelper requires the use of misc:Pre-Depends. The manpage [1]
> says:
>
> [...]
> This change makes dh_installinit inject a misc:Pre-
> Depends for init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~). Please ensure
> that the package lists ${misc:Pre-Depends} in its Pre-
> Depends field before upgrading to compat 12.
> [...]
>
> It seems to me this requirement is not honored well by recent debian packages.
> A new check and tag debhelper-but-no-pre-depends should be introduced
> therefore.
May I suggest instead that debhelper itself checks for this, and errors
out if Pre-Depends is missing?
That looks like the easy kind of check, and it's terribly easy to miss.
Also, it's only relevant for some of the packages running
dh_installinit, it would only be noise in the other majority of the
packages not using such helper.
Indeed, I'd suggest to debhelper to just start erroring out if they want
to add a substvars, but said substavar is missing in d/control. Either
that, or hack it in dh_gencontrol, so it forcibly push the missing
fields with `dpkg-gencontrol -D` (this would also help clearing out the
"empty" 'Depends: ${misc:Depends}' a few packages have).
--
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Mattia Rizzolo
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