Bug#933715: jh_linkjars: dpkg -L "debhelper-compat" returned exit code 1

[Markus Koschany]

Am 02.09.19 um 20:16 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:05:25 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: javahelper
>> Version: 0.72.9
>> Severity: serious
>>
>>
>> jh_linkjars apparently chokes on the new debhelper-compat package.
>> Since it is not a real package dpkg -L does not work. I presume the
>> workaround is to either add debhelper-compat to a blacklist or to find
>> a more general way to not use dpkg -L on virtual packages.
>>
>> This bug can be reproduced by switching to debhelper-compat = 12, e.g.
>> in lombok-patcher.
>>
>>
>> [...]
> 
> While it is certainly an annoying bug, it is possible to use debhelper
> compat 12 without relying on the virtual package.  Obviously, it would
> be best if it was fixed ... :)

I consider this still release-critical because if you switch to level 12
you want to use just debhelper-compat = 12 in debian/control and remove
debian/compat, otherwise you could just stay at level 11. This affects
all Java packages that depend on this kind of functionality and I
believe a lot more people will encounter this bug. Not really something
you want to marginalize.

Markus

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