Hi Cyril,

On 11/08/2022 02:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: libnl-3-200-udeb
> Version: 3.7.0-0.1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.bae...@tessares.net>, Adam Borowski 
> <kilob...@angband.pl>, debian-b...@lists.debian.org
> 
> Hi Matthieu, hi Adam,
> 
> The set of packages you uploaded contains uninstallable udebs, as they
> depend on sgml-base, which doesn't exist in the installer context
> (there's no udeb for it. Current dependencies are as follows:
> 
>     $ dpkg --info libnl-3-200-udeb_3.7.0-0.1_amd64.udeb|grep Depends
>      Depends: sgml-base (>= 1.28), libc6-udeb (>= 2.34)
> 
>     $ dpkg --info libnl-genl-3-200-udeb_3.4.0-1+b1_amd64.udeb|grep Depends
>      Depends: libnl-3-200-udeb (= 3.4.0-1+b1), libc6-udeb (>= 2.28)
> 
> This leads to the following build failure for the daily builds of the
> installer:
> 
>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      libnl-3-200-udeb : Depends: sgml-base (>= 1.28) but it is not installable
>      libnl-genl-3-200-udeb : Depends: sgml-base (>= 1.28) but it is not 
> installable
>     E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> (Note that I'm filing this bug report against only one of those udebs.)
> 
> This is not your fault, that's debhelper's #1015263:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/1015263
> 
> but I thought I'd loop you in so that you know about this issue, and
> about my current plan: the installer team (X-D-Cc'd) doesn't require an
> immediate fix, but since I'm not sure when the debhelper bug is getting
> fixed (and packages binNMU'd), I thought I'd prepare a workaround to
> make sure this source package isn't a blocker when we plan for a Debian
> Installer release.

Thank you for having CCed me, provided a fix so quickly and for the
detailed explanations! Sorry, I didn't notice the regression when
testing on my side.

Do we need to revert your workaround when #1015263 will be fixed? If
yes, are you tracking this issue and planning to do the revert or do you
prefer if someone else looks at that?

Cheers,
Matt
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