[pkg-db-devel] Bug#773806: libdb5.3-java: Pre-installation script fails

[Ondřej Surý]

Thanks for clarification, the Build-Depends was not needed anyway, since
it needs only sourceful rebuild.

Cheers,
Ondrej

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014, at 08:16, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 18:42:42 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > JFTR This is caused by older dpkg (<< 1.17.22) that didn't set
> > ${misc:Pre-Depends} to >= 1.17.14.
> 
> dpkg never sets misc:Pre-Depends, that's debhelper, so this fix
> is not correct.
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014, at 15:50, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > > and the ${misc:Pre-Depends} was fixed in 1.17.22:
> > > 
> > > dpkg (1.17.22) unstable; urgency=low
> > > [...]
> > >   * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
> > >     to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
> > > 
> > > So libdb5.3-java just needs binNMU with dpkg 1.17.22.
> 
> Nope, as the changelog says, that was just a man page update. The fix
> you are looking for is:
> 
> ,---
> debhelper (9.20141221) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   [ Niels Thykier ]
>   * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for dir_to_symlink to
>     1.17.13 (see #769843, msg #10).  Thanks to Guillem Jover.
> …
> 
>   [ Axel Beckert ]
>   * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for symlink_to_dir to
>     1.17.14. It is needed in case of relative symlinks. (Closes: #770245)
> 
>  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:21:18 +0100
> `---
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem


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