[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#770226: [debhelper-devel] Bug#770245: dh_installdeb: Using symlink_to_dir with relative symlinks needs ${misc:Pre-Depends} = dpkg >= 1.17.14

[Niels Thykier]

On 2014-11-20 01:17, Axel Beckert wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [...]
> 
> I could confirm that by downgrading dpkg from 1.17.21 to 1.17.13 and
> then installing zsh:
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi,

Thanks for testing and confirming the issue. :)

>> debhelper maintainers: Shall I clone or reassign this bug report to
>> debhelper for bumping ${misc:Pre-Depends} in such cases?
> 
> I'm sure this should be fixed in debhelper's ${misc:Pre-Depends}, too,
> hence I cloned the bug report.
> 

Ack.

> I'm just not sure if it should be generally bumped to dpkg >= 1.17.14
> or only in cases with relative symlinks.
> 

The problem here is that debhelper do not know what is in the previous
version of a package.  So we cannot do this conditionally.

> I'm also not sure if this is of RC severity for debhelper. Downgrading
> the clone to important for now. Feel free to raise it to RC severity
> again.
> 
>> [...]
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
> 

If we do an upload for Jessie, I will probably just bump the
Pre-Depends.  From a Wheezy -> Jessie upgrader, it should not matter if
it is >= 1.17.5 or >= 1.17.14 as they will not see a dpkg version
between 1.17.5 and 1.17.14.

~Niels