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and subject line Bug#1128372: fixed in debhelper 13.31
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regarding debhelper: wipes out entire d/ch if month is wrong
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Package: debhelper
Version: 13.30
Severity: serious
Hi,
In cases where there's only one changelog entry, and the month is wrong,
debhelper
wipes out the full d/ch that is installed.
This is not the case with version 13.29.
A reproducer for the same is as follows:
$ apt source hello
Write only this content in d/ch (wipe out everything else):
hello (2.10-5) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add autopkgtest dependency on make. Closes: #1103293.
Thanks to Jochen Sprickerhof.
-- Santiago Vila <[email protected]> Wed, 16 April 2025 11:50:00 +0200
$ dpkg-buildpackage
$ cd ..
$ ar x hello_2.10-5_amd64.deb
$ tar -xf data.tar.xz
$ zcat ./usr/share/doc/hello/changelog.Debian.gz | wc -l
0
The changelog here is completely empty. Same steps with debhelper version 13.29:
$ zcat ./usr/share/doc/hello/changelog.Debian.gz | wc -l
6
And I can see the contents of d/ch here. This was caught by lintian's testsuite
in "changelog-file-invalid-date" test.
This does not look intended. If it is, please let me know.
Also, if the day is wrong for example, Wednesday instead of Wed, it works fine.
That looks quite wrong.
Since this is leading to outright wiping the entire d/ch, (on only one entry),
I am assigning severity as serious.
Best,
Nilesh
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 13.31
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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debhelper package)
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:21:19 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 13.31
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Closes: 1128372 1128414 1128894
Changes:
debhelper (13.31) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Niels Thykier ]
* dh_assistant: Add new `parse-dh-cli-args` subcommand
* dh: Fix description of the `dwz` add-on
* dh_clean: do not require `/` for symlinks to directories.
Thanks to David Prévot <[email protected]> (Closes: #1128894)
* dh_installchangelogs: Require all changelog dates seen to be valid.
Previously, we would allow invalid dates and that causes problems.
With this change, we now require the dates to be valid. This may
bring some invalid entries out in the open in the form of FTBFS
bugs. These were always bugs and how we flag them.
(Closes: #1128372)
.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* dh_installinit/dh_installsystemduser: stop adding dependencies
satisfied since bullseye/jammy
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Update cutoff date in dh_installchangelogs to Bookworm release date
* Do not install NEWS entries beyond cutoff-date (Closes: #1128414)
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