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

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 14:05:30 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Niels Thykier wrote:
> > 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.

> So my suggestion is: Fix it in debhelper's git and include it if there
> is another upload for Jessie. But if there's no need for another
> debhelper upload for Jessie, an upload only because of this issue may
> be overkill.

You might want to bump the minimal version for dir_to_symlink to at
least 1.17.13 while you are at it, please see #769843 for more details.

Thanks,
Guillem