Debian Bug report logs - #564917
deb-reversion: update strict versioned dependencies to match new version

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Piotr Engelking <[email protected]>

To: Debian BTS <[email protected]>

Subject: deb-reversion: update strict versioned dependencies to match new version

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:28:52 +0100

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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.61
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Please consider adding an option to update versioned dependencies to
match the new version in case the package depends on another package
with exactly the same version. It would be useful for preserving strict
versioned dependencies between binary packages generated from the same
source.

The attached patch adds such an option and accompanying documentation.


-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.3.1   Debian package development tools
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.10.1-8   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                 3.1.12-1              Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent
ii  bzr                2.0.3-1               easy to use distributed version co
ii  curl               7.19.7-1              Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or
ii  cvs                1:1.12.13-12          Concurrent Versions System
ii  dctrl-tools        2.14                  Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-keyring [de 2009.11.04            GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
pn  dput | dupload     <none>                (no description available)
ii  elinks [www-browse 0.12~pre5-1+b1        advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  epiphany-browser [ 2.29.3-1              Intuitive GNOME web browser
pn  equivs             <none>                (no description available)
ii  fakeroot           1.14.4-1              Gives a fake root environment
ii  git-core           1:1.6.5-1             fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii  gnupg              1.4.10-2              GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  iceweasel [www-bro 3.5.6-1               lightweight web browser based on M
pn  libauthen-sasl-per <none>                (no description available)
pn  libcrypt-ssleay-pe <none>                (no description available)
ii  libparse-debcontro 2.005-2               Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
pn  libsoap-lite-perl  <none>                (no description available)
ii  libterm-size-perl  0.2-4+b1              Perl extension for retrieving term
ii  libtimedate-perl   1.1900-1              Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl        1.50-1                module to manipulate and access UR
ii  libwww-perl        5.834-1               Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar
pn  libyaml-syck-perl  <none>                (no description available)
ii  links [www-browser 2.2-1+b1              Web browser running in text mode
ii  links2 [www-browse 2.2-1+b1              Web browser running in both graphi
ii  lintian            2.2.18                Debian package checker
ii  lsb-release        3.2-23                Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lynx-cur [www-brow 2.8.8dev.2-1          Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  lzma               4.43-14               Compression method of 7z format in
ii  man-db             2.5.6-5               on-line manual pager
ii  mercurial          1.4.1-1               scalable distributed version contr
ii  openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-8             secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  opera [www-browser 10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3   The Opera Web Browser
ii  patch              2.6-2                 Apply a diff file to an original
ii  patchutils         0.3.1-2               Utilities to work with patches
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.2                 Utilities for sensible alternative
ii  strace             4.5.19-1              A system call tracer
ii  subversion         1.6.3dfsg-1           Advanced version control system
ii  unzip              6.0-1                 De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m [www-browser]  0.5.2-2.1             WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  wdiff              0.5-19                Compares two files word by word
ii  wget               1.12-1.1              retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential               11.4       Informational list of build-essent
pn  cvs-buildpackage              <none>     (no description available)
pn  devscripts-el                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  gnuplot                       4.2.6-1    A command-line driven interactive
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl     0.04-2     Perl module to handle freedesktop
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl          <none>     (no description available)
pn  mutt                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  svn-buildpackage              <none>     (no description available)
ii  w3m                           0.5.2-2.1  WWW browsable pager with excellent

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Piotr Engelking <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: "Martin F. Krafft" <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: deb-reversion: update strict versioned dependencies to match new version

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:40:25 +0100

On 12 January 2010, Piotr Engelking <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please consider adding an option to update versioned dependencies to
> match the new version in case the package depends on another package
> with exactly the same version. It would be useful for preserving strict
> versioned dependencies between binary packages generated from the same
> source.
>
> The attached patch adds such an option and accompanying documentation.

Are there any plans to address this issue? There has never been a
comment on the bug or on the patch (which still applies cleanly, after
two years) by any of the maintainers. Is there anything else I can do
to help?

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: martin f krafft <[email protected]>

To: Piotr Engelking <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: deb-reversion: update strict versioned dependencies to match new version

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:16:45 +0100

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also sprach Piotr Engelking <[email protected]> [2012.01.24.0940 +0100]:
> Are there any plans to address this issue? There has never been a
> comment on the bug or on the patch (which still applies cleanly, after
> two years) by any of the maintainers. Is there anything else I can do
> to help?

I remember this patch. I think the sed call needs to be limited to
update only the version of known binary packages, else a change from
e.g. 1.0-1 to 1.0-1.1 would potentially update dependencies on other
packages.

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