Bug#944478: fixed in debhelper 12.8

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Mon Feb 3 18:51:16 GMT 2020


Michael Biebl:
> Am 01.02.20 um 20:43 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> What's your thought here? Should we transition to the name
>> debian/foo.tmpfiles in compat 13? It would probably be good to keep
>> support for debian/foo.tmpfile in compat 13 but logging a warning and
>> making the existentence of a debian/foo.tmpfile a hard error in compat 14?
>>
>> Or do you think the name is purely cosmetical and changing it now is
>> just creating busy work?
> 
> If we decide to change the name, now would probably be a good time
> before compat 13 is officially released. I assume it's still ok to
> change the behaviour of compat 13 or is this already too late?
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 

I have added the new name (in git at master) for dh_installtmpfiles.  The
old name is still accepted with a warning as a fallback.

To avoid "funny issues", dh_installtmpfiles requires "new name" xor "old
name".

~Niels



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