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

[Niels Thykier]

On 2014-11-21 21:08, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> [...]

Thanks, I have committed the correction to the master branch.

~Niels