Bug#873821: wcc Depends: binutils (< 2.29) but 2.29-8 is to be installed

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:43:35PM +0200, Philippe Thierry wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Le 31/08/2017 à 16:01, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > Package: wcc
> > Version: 0.0.2+dfsg-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  wcc : Depends: binutils (< 2.29) but 2.29-8 is to be installed
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> I've check where the error comes from. This is the result of the version
> of binutils dependency (<2.29) generated by dpkg-buildpackage. The
> source package only has a build dependency on binutils-dev (without
> explicit version).
> When building again the package, the Depends list is updated:
> 
> Depends: libbinutils (>= 2.29), libbinutils (<< 2.30), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcapstone3 (>= 3.0.0), libelf1 (>= 0.142), liblua5.3-0, libopenlibm2 (>= 0.4), lua5.2
> 
> This means that a simple rebuild of wcc with uptodate sid should correct
> the error,

Sorry my bad, then a binNMU should be sufficient.

But since you anyway plan an upload for #873783 this will en passant
also fix this problem.

> but if I update the package version (to 0.0.2+dfsg-2), the
> upgrade test of piupart will also fails, while the -1 version of the
> package is not rebuilt in the Debian ftp-master.

There won't be any problems with piuparts when you upload 0.0.2+dfsg-2

cu
Adrian

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