Debian Bug report logs - #694760
devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:00:13 +0000

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: crossbuild@debian.org
Usertags: cross

devscripts is Architecture: any due to (I believe) debpkg and libvfork,
but on a multiarch system it doesn't matter which architecture you get
as long as you can execute its binaries.  It's also a build-dependency
of 290 packages in unstable.  Accordingly, it would be helpful to mark
it Multi-Arch: foreign to avoid blocking cross-builds of those packages.

  * debian/control: Mark devscripts Multi-Arch: foreign.

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fbf74f7..a7f07a1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/devscripts/devscripts.git
 
 Package: devscripts
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.4.1),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${perl:Depends},

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

Message #10 received at 694760@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>, 694760@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#694760: devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:12:39 +0100

Am Donnerstag, den 29.11.2012, 23:00 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> It's also a build-dependency of 290 packages in unstable.

I think that no package should build depend on devscripts! It contains a
bunch of scripts for developers and is an overkill for building a
package in a minimal environment.

I discovered that cdbs pulls in devscripts and created build
dependencies on devscripts. It uses licensecheck from devscripts. I
think we should put licensecheck in a separate source+binary package and
thus get rid of the build dependency on devscripts. What do you think?

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

Message #15 received at 694760@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>

To: devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, 694760@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#694760: devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:17:25 +1100

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:12:39 Benjamin Drung wrote:
> I discovered that cdbs pulls in devscripts and created build
> dependencies on devscripts. It uses licensecheck from devscripts. I
> think we should put licensecheck in a separate source+binary package and
> thus get rid of the build dependency on devscripts. What do you think?

Here is another use case:

At build-time "desktop2menu" may be even more useful than "licensecheck".

Indeed B-D on "devscripts" and "libfile-desktopentry-perl" (needed by 
desktop2menu) is a bit overkill but still helpful to translate upstream 
.desktop file(s) to  .menu during package build.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

Message #20 received at 694760@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

To: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>

Cc: 694760@bugs.debian.org, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#694760: devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:46:44 +0100

Am Freitag, den 30.11.2012, 14:17 +1100 schrieb Dmitry Smirnov:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:12:39 Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > I discovered that cdbs pulls in devscripts and created build
> > dependencies on devscripts. It uses licensecheck from devscripts. I
> > think we should put licensecheck in a separate source+binary package and
> > thus get rid of the build dependency on devscripts. What do you think?
> 
> Here is another use case:
> 
> At build-time "desktop2menu" may be even more useful than "licensecheck".

Running desktop2menu emits following warning:
WARNING: Section is highly inaccurate. Please check it manually

Therefore desktop2menu should not be run at every build-time, but
manually by the developer and the result reviewed.

> Indeed B-D on "devscripts" and "libfile-desktopentry-perl" (needed by 
> desktop2menu) is a bit overkill but still helpful to translate upstream 
> .desktop file(s) to  .menu during package build.

The developer could add a rule to debian/rules that runs desktop2menu.
This rules can be called manually after every new upstream release
containing changes to the .desktop file.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

Message #25 received at 694760-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

To: 694760-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#694760 marked as pending

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:30:39 +0000

tag 694760 pending
thanks

Hello,

Bug #694760 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

    http://git.debian.org/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae4fb54

---
commit ae4fb54bdeb59649bcf89103d73bcf97b0dbd81b
Author: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 30 10:29:53 2012 +0100

    debian/control: Mark devscripts Multi-Arch: foreign.
    
    Thanks: Colin Watson
    Closes: #694760

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index afae779..a8a14ec 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ devscripts (2.12.6+exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       by common archive formats.
     + Add an example watch URL for Google Code projects.
 
+  [ Benjamin Drung ]
+  * debian/control: Mark devscripts Multi-Arch: foreign.
+    Thanks to Colin Watson. (Closes: #694760)
+
  -- James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:12:16 -0400
 
 devscripts (2.12.6) unstable; urgency=low

Message #30 received at 694760@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>

To: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

Cc: 694760@bugs.debian.org, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

Subject: Re: Bug#694760: devscripts: Please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 08:10:11 +1100

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:46:44 Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Running desktop2menu emits following warning:
> WARNING: Section is highly inaccurate. Please check it manually
> 
> Therefore desktop2menu should not be run at every build-time, but
> manually by the developer and the result reviewed.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The developer could add a rule to debian/rules that runs desktop2menu.
> This rules can be called manually after every new upstream release
> containing changes to the .desktop file.

If maintainer verified the generated .menu file and prefer to generate it on 
build-time, it should be OK because if desktop2menu will suddenly stop 
producing valid result it will be a legitimate regression bug.

Does it make any sense to limit "field of endeavour" by allowing room for 
regression?

Actually this argument of yours applies to licensecheck even more as we know 
how inaccurate its output can be, even if it's only used for generating hints.

I wonder if there are anything you can't deprecate due to possibility that it 
may stop working one day? ;)

Regards,
Dmitry.

Message #35 received at 694760-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>

To: 694760-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#694760: fixed in devscripts 2.13.0

Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:03:26 +0000

Source: devscripts
Source-Version: 2.13.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 694760@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> (supplier of updated devscripts package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:11 +0100
Source: devscripts
Binary: devscripts
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.13.0
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Devscripts Devel Team <devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Description: 
 devscripts - scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Closes: 526698 650732 659231 686862 687450 687664 690024 690056 690059 694760 695609 695612 695613 695914 696018 696363 696416 697923 700584
Changes: 
 devscripts (2.13.0) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   [ Christoph Berg ]
   * origtargz: New script: fetch the orig tarball of a Debian package from
     various sources, and unpack it
   * debcommit: --changelog-info will pass --author and --date for git commits.
 .
   [ James McCoy ]
   * licensecheck: Recognize MPL 2.0 licenses.  Thanks to Ryan Pavlik for the
     patch.  (Closes: #687664)
   * namecheck: Check Apache's projects page for names.  (Closes: #686862)
   * debcommit:
     + Drop checks for old dpkg versions and always use the necessary Perl
       modules (Dpkg::Changelog::Parse, Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu,
       Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian).
     + Add changelog info support for hg and bzr.
   * annotate-output:
     + Handle an incomplete line of output.  (Closes: #695609)
     + Don't treat backslashes in the command's output as an escape.  (Closes:
       #695613)
     + Don't swallow leading whitespace.  (Closes: #695612, LP: #1120917)
   * dscverify: Use "gpg --status-fd" to determine if a valid signature is
     found and only use the signed content.  (Closes: #695914)
   * wrap-and-sort: Fix repeated word in man page.  (Closes: #696363)
 .
   [ Dmitry Smirnov ]
   * licensecheck:
     + Remove any regular comments pattern. (Closes: #526698)
     + Improve command line parsing.
     + Fix GPL license version detection bug.
     + Fix BSD-3-clause detection.
 .
   [ Paul Wise ]
   * checkbashisms: When examining a bash script, indicate the lack of use of
     bashisms.
   * uscan:
     + Access GitHub directly instead of using githubredir.debian.net in
       example GitHub watch URL.
     + Add an example watch URL that matches the various file extensions used
       by common archive formats.
     + Add an example watch URL for Google Code projects.
 .
   [ Benjamin Drung ]
   * Add bashism test cases from Raphael Geissert.
   * Add autopkgtest support. (LP: #1073330)
   * suspicious-source: Add inode/symlink and image/x-xpmi to whitelisted
     mime-types.
   * wrap-and-sort:
     + Put special entries (variables and placeholders) at the end of the list.
     + Sort debian/control*.in files too.
   * licensecheck: detect (L)GPL licenses more permissively. Thanks to
     Laurent Rineau for the patch. (Closes: #659231)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed).
 .
   [ Cyril Brulebois ]
   * Don't auto reverse diffs when DEBDIFF_AUTO_VER_SORT is set to yes, and
     when the version in both packages is the same. (Closes: #650732)
 .
   [ Tony Mancill ]
   * debsnap: Escape the package name when used in regex.  (Closes: #696018)
 .
   [ David Prévot ]
   * Minor manpages convention fix: do not terminate the SEE ALSO lists with a
     period. (Closes: #696416)
   * French translation update.
 .
   [ Josselin Mouette ]
   * nmudiff: Use dpkg-parsechangelog to fix manual parsing bug (Closes: #700584)
 .
   [ Raphael Geissert ]
   * checkbashisms:
     + allow -FOO- as heredoc delimiter
     + simplify mixed single/double balanced quotes correctly
     + correct description of 'setvar'
     + detect traps for DEBUG, ERRNO, or RETURN
     + check for incorrect args. to 'exit' (Closes: #687450)
     + fix handling of # characters in quoted strings
     + detect use of $FUNCNAME, $TMOUT, and $TIMEFORMAT
     + detect uses of sleep with anything other than an int.
     + detect the use of the hash utility and $_
     + check for other forms of brace expansion
     + check for use of non-standard tilde expansion
     + check for case modification expansions
     + check for the use of $GLOBIGNORE
 .
   [ Regid Ichira ]
   * rc-alert: Support using curl as alternative to wget. (Closes: #690024)
   * wnpp-alert: Support using curl as alternative to wget. (Closes: #690056)
   * wnpp-check: Support using curl as alternative to wget. (Closes: #690059)
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * debian/control: Mark devscripts Multi-Arch: foreign. (Closes: #694760)
   * debchange, debcommit: Set the timestamp of temporary editor files back
     one second, to make modification detection more reliable in the absence
     of subsecond granularity. (Closes: #697923)
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