[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#912685: debian/rules is not binNMU safe

[Laurent Bigonville]

Source: net-snmp
Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-4
Severity: serious

Hi,

In debian/rules you have the following:

UPSTREAM_VERSION = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | egrep '^Version:' | cut -f 2 -d ':' | sed 's/ //' | sed 's/~dfsg.*$$//')
COMPAT_VERSION = $(UPSTREAM_VERSION)~dfsg
[...]
override_dh_makeshlibs:
        dh_makeshlibs -plibsnmp$(LIB_VERSION) -V"libsnmp$(LIB_VERSION) (>= $(COMPAT_VERSION))"

When a binNMU is scheduled, UPSTREAM_VERSION is set to 5.7.3+dfsg-4+b1
and then COMPAT_VERSION is set to 5.7.3+dfsg-4+b1~dfsg which is
completely boggus

All the reverse-dependency will have this boggus version in their
generated dependency list.

Why aren't you using "dh_makeshlibs -V" or the version macro that are
present in /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk ?

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy