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| From | Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist |
| Subject | Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error |
| Date | 2022-07-07 18:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <EGC53-9Mmo-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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Package: debhelper Version: 13.8 Severity: wishlist User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu kinetic Hi Niels, I was recently doing work on a package where, for $reasons, I was deleting a binary package from debian/control. This had very bad side effects, because the debian/ directory for this package contained debian/dirs, debian/install, and debian/postinst; and the package I was deleting from debian/control was the first listed; so the consequence of this change was that debhelper was suddenly applying these files to the next binary package in debian/control, with very incorrect effects. This kind of packaging, with some packaging files under debian/ having an associated binary package name and some not, is an antipattern. I would like to suggest that in the next debhelper compat level, debhelper should consider it an error when debian/control lists more than one binary package, but contains unnamed packaging files under debian/. This of course would only solve this particular class of bug for packages that update to the current debhelper compat level, and changing debian/control to remove (or reorder) binary packages is an infrequent operation; nevertheless this seems worth doing IMHO. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> - 2022-07-07 18:00 +0200 Bug#1014537: unnamed packaging files in a multibinary package should be an error gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2022-07-09 00:20 +0200
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