Bug#857236: holotz-castle: Uninstallable in unstable due to not being BinNMU-safe (unsatisfiable dependencies)

[James Cowgill]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo

On 10/03/17 04:01, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 01:48:06 +0100 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: holotz-castle
>> Version: 1.3.14-7
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> Dear Debian Games Team,
>>
>> holotz-castle has been BinNMUed to rebuild it with PIE, but now it (and
>> holotz-castle-editor as well) depend on both (!)
>>
>> * holotz-castle-data (= 1.3.14-7), and
>> * holotz-castle-data (= 1.3.14-7+b1)
>>
>> which is obviously unsatisfiable at the same time. Hence
>> holotz-castle and holotz-castle-editor have become uninstallable.
>>
>> The second dependency is the broken one as holotz-castle-data is
>> architecture-independent.
> 
> Hi Axel,
> 
> not sure what is going wrong here. Installing holotz-castle and
> holotz-castle-editor works perfectly fine on my Stretch system (amd64).

holotz-castle 1.3.14-7+b1 has not yet migrated to stretch because
britney (correctly) thinks it's uninstallable.

> The debian/control file also looks sane to me because both holotz-castle
> and holotz-castle-editor depend on holotz-castle-data (=
> ${source:Version}) which makes them binNMU safe.

It's almost certainly caused the use of dh_installdocs --link-doc. There
are lots of debhelper bugs about this - eg: #747141 and #766711. If you
have debhelper compat 10, dh_installdocs will fail if you do this.

James

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