Bug#519306: pbuilder: doesn't grok funny wrappings in debian/control

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Fri Mar 13 13:23:42 UTC 2009


Hi,

thanks for the bugreport.

I'm not particularly fond of this particular way of fixing the problem, 
why not other places?

At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:14:17 +0200,
Eric Pozharski wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.186
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Accidentally stepped into F<debian/control> with funny wrappings.
> Namely B<libmodule-scandeps-perl>, version 0.89-1.  Offending lines are:
> 
> 	Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.0-7), perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) |
> 	 libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.28), libversion-perl, libtest-pod-perl,
> 	 libmodule-pluggable-perl, libprefork-perl
> 
> That finishes build with 
> 
> 	Package: pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy
> 	Version: 0.invalid.0
> 	Architecture: i386
> 	Maintainer: Debian Pbuilder Team <pbuilder-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 	Description: Dummy package to satisfy dependencies with aptitude - created by pbuilder
> 	 This package was created automatically by pbuilder and should
> 	Depends: debhelper (>= 7), quilt (>= 0.40), perl (>= 5.8.0-7), perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) |, libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.28), libversion-perl, libtest-pod-perl, libmodule-pluggable-perl, libprefork-perl
> 	dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy/DEBIAN/control' near line 7 package `pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy':
> 	 `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected
> 	Copying back the cached apt archive contents
> 
> Please note C<|,> between B<perl-modules> and B<libmodule-build-perl>.
> 
> I'd thought a lot of this and have found that only reliable place to fix
> it is inside B<get_control_re> function of
> F<pbuilder-satisfydepends-funcs>.  Look, after stripping headers it
> would be error prone to recreate records.  Bugfix in attach.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (1, 'testing'), (1, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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