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

[Markus Koschany]

Control: tags -1 pending

Am 11.03.2017 um 12:06 schrieb Axel Beckert:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Markus Koschany wrote:
>> not sure what is going wrong here. Installing holotz-castle and
>> holotz-castle-editor works perfectly fine on my Stretch system
>> (amd64).
> 
> Yes, Stretch works fine, but 1.3.14-7+b1 from Debian Sid is
> uninstallable.
> 
> And unfortunately the BTS (AFAIK) is not able to understand BinNMU
> versions as it tracks source package version, hence the report against
> 1.3.14-7 instead of 1.3.14-7+b1.
> 
> Please have a look at
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/holotz-castle

Hi Axel,

now I understand the problem. As James has already pointed out in a
previous reply to this bug report, this is apparently a bug in
debhelper. [1] [2]

Actually I would have expected that a binNMU of holotz-castle fails or
would have been rejected. According to [1] this is the intended solution
to avoid broken packages with compat level 9. Apparently this never
happened for holotz-castle.

Looking at [2] it appears this issue will not be fixed in time for
Stretch (or at all). This makes the --link-doc option fairly useless (at
least for this use case) if you intend to save disk space by symlinking
the arch:all documentation to the arch:any packages, at least that was
the idea which previous uploaders had in mind.

I am going to fix #857236 by removing the dh_installdocs override for
holotz-castle and using real directories instead.

Regards,

Markus


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/747141
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/766711


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