Bug#850000: libdebian-source-perl: fails to parse build-depends restriction formulas

David Bremner bremner at debian.org
Tue Jan 3 00:56:10 UTC 2017


Package: libdebian-source-perl
Version: 0.92
Severity: normal

Debian::Dependency is used by dh_elpa_test (source dh-elpa) to parse build deps, but it chokes on
build profiles, so called "restriction formulas".

for example

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
 dh-elpa,
 racket <!nocheck>

% dh_elpa_test

leads to

Unable to parse 'racket <!nocheck>' at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Dependency.pm line 331

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libdebian-source-perl depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                  1.18.18
ii  libapt-pkg-perl           0.1.30
ii  libarray-unique-perl      0.08-2
ii  libclass-accessor-perl    0.34-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl    0.416-1+b1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-4
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl        1.23-2
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl     1.83-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.15-1
ii  perl                      5.24.1~rc4-1

libdebian-source-perl recommends no packages.

libdebian-source-perl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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