Debian Bug report logs - #4655
dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

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

From: Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:15:13 +0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.1

dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on the version number given in 
the changelog file.  I rebuilt a package and had made a typo in the version
number. The package was built without a warning. Only at installation time
did dpkg complain about the "downgrade" of the package.

Message #10 received at 4655-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 4655-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:01:10 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

Message #15 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 3765@bugs.debian.org, 4655@bugs.debian.org, 4989@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Reason for change of severity to `wishlist'

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:36:46 -0800

IMHO, these are not worthy of normal status, but are really wishlist items.

--
Joel "Espy" Klecker    Debian GNU/Linux Developer    <mailto:jk@espy.org>
<http://espy.org/>                               <ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub>
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person He selects to
receive it.  -- Austin O'Malley (1858-1952)

Message #24 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>

To: 4655@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4655: dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:01:30 +0200

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 30, 1996 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on the version number given in 
> the changelog file.  I rebuilt a package and had made a typo in the version
> number. The package was built without a warning. Only at installation time
> did dpkg complain about the "downgrade" of the package.

linda is already doing this sanity check.
Do you think it is worth keeping this bug open?

Do you think it should be implemented in dpkg-dev (or in lintian)?

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral
I think it's the first 4 digits bug I'm replying to.

Message #29 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

To: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>, 4655@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4655: dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:50:20 -0500

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:01:30AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 1996 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > 
> > dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on the version number given in 
> > the changelog file.  I rebuilt a package and had made a typo in the version
> > number. The package was built without a warning. Only at installation time
> > did dpkg complain about the "downgrade" of the package.
> 
> linda is already doing this sanity check.
> Do you think it is worth keeping this bug open?
> 
> Do you think it should be implemented in dpkg-dev (or in lintian)?

I would leave the bug open. While I have no intentions to hack something
like this into the current version of dpkg-parsechangelog, I would not
say that it is a thing not ever worth thinking about.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

Message #34 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

Cc: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>, 4655@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4655: dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:12:03 +0100

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:01:30AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 1996 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > > 
> > > dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on the version number given in 
> > > the changelog file.  I rebuilt a package and had made a typo in the version
> > > number. The package was built without a warning. Only at installation time
> > > did dpkg complain about the "downgrade" of the package.
> > 
> > linda is already doing this sanity check.
> > Do you think it is worth keeping this bug open?
> > 
> > Do you think it should be implemented in dpkg-dev (or in lintian)?
> 
> I would leave the bug open. While I have no intentions to hack something
> like this into the current version of dpkg-parsechangelog, I would not
> say that it is a thing not ever worth thinking about.

We could add this warning to dpkg-genchanges. We already have the code
that extracts the two last version numbers... it's a trivial 2 line
patch.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/

Message #39 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

To: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

Cc: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>, 4655@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#4655: dpkg-buildpackage should do sanity checks on version number

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:33:34 +0100

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:12:03PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > I would leave the bug open. While I have no intentions to hack something
> > like this into the current version of dpkg-parsechangelog, I would not
> > say that it is a thing not ever worth thinking about.
> 
> We could add this warning to dpkg-genchanges. We already have the code
> that extracts the two last version numbers... it's a trivial 2 line
> patch.

Fine with me.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

Message #46 received at 4655-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 4655-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#4655: fixed in dpkg 1.15.0

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:32:04 +0000

Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.15.0

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

dpkg-dev_1.15.0_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.15.0_all.deb
dpkg_1.15.0.dsc
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.0.dsc
dpkg_1.15.0.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.0.tar.gz
dpkg_1.15.0_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.0_i386.deb
dselect_1.15.0_i386.deb
  to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.15.0_i386.deb



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 4655@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> (supplier of updated dpkg package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:41:08 +0000
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg dpkg-dev dselect
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.15.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
Description: 
 dpkg       - package maintenance system for Debian
 dpkg-dev   - package building tools for Debian
 dselect    - user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 4655 114774 151540 281057 311843 355654 375711 379028 432893 445552 462225 462403 462413 463398 465282 465651 466135 466321 466957 467470 468916 469520
Changes: 
 dpkg (1.15.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Ian Jackson ]
   * Triggers.
   * Ship triggers.text to /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev.
 .
   * Fix formatting of a few files.  Closes: #375711.
   * Treat successful calls to the postinst as always making the package
     installed.  Reverts Brian Carlson's patch from #432893.
   * Fix missing angle bracket in Swedish po file.
   * postinst in cleanup iff status was good beforehand.  Closes: #432893.
     This is the proper fix.  If the package was halfconfigured, we
     don't run the postinst and that way there are no surprises.
     When we do run the postinst we know that we can without fear set
     the package to installed (or trig*, as the case may be).
     We achieve this by not registering the cu_prerm* handlers unless the
     package was >stat_halfconfigured beforehand.  We have no more need
     to pass the previous state into the cu_prerm* postinst invocations.
   * Do not pointlessly clear reinstreq flag on postinst abort-remove.
     cu_prermremove is only be called via a push_cleanup in remove.c which
     is only executed if the package is at least halfconfigured so
     reinstreq must be clear to start with.
   * Mark reinstreq during unpack as late as possible, not before prerm.
     Previously the package would be reinstreq while we deal with
     conflictors' prerms and deconfiguration, but that's unnecessary.
 .
   * Implement `Breaks' properly in dselect.  It works just like Conflicts.
     This is correct since dselect only deals with packages being installed,
     removed or placed on hold.
   * Fix erroneous description of Breaks in dselect.
     The description should be `breaks' as in `A breaks B' rather than
     `A breaks with B' since it is B that is broken by A and not vice versa.
   * Correct broken dselect logic for self-conflicting packages.
 .
   * Add Ian as a maintainer and remove Guillem.
 .
   [ Egmont Koblinger ]
   * lstat correct conffile path even with --root.  Closes: #281057.
     Previously we would incorrectly ignore --root here.  The change is
     dpkg-1.13.22-oom-part2.patch from Egmont's June 2006 message to the
     bug report, adjusted to fit without the part1 patch.
 .
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * Replace strdup plus error checking usage with a new m_strdup function.
     Closes: #379028
   * Add new keybinding in dselect to restore all selections back to
     whatever's currently installed. Closes: #151540
     Thanks to Colin Watson.
   * Use system timersub and fix timeval normalization in multiplication in
     start-stop-daemon. Thanks to Andreas Påhlsson. Closes: #462225
   * Cosmetic fixes to start-stop-daemon output and man page. Document that
     --chuid will change the group even if it has not been specified. Add
     EXIT STATUS and EXAMPLE sections to man page. Thanks to Justin Pryzby.
   * Add Raphael Hertzog to Uploaders, and remove Brendan O'Dea and
     Christian Perrier with their permission.
   * Use functions from libcompat when those are not provided by the system.
   * Change dpkg-gencontrol to not output the Homapage field on udeb.
   * Reintroduce 'no-debsig' back in dpkg.cfg to avoid failing to install any
     package when debsig-verify is installed. Closes: #311843
   * Fix some small memory leaks. Closes: #469520
     Thanks to Sean Finney.
 .
   [ Raphael Hertzog ]
   * Add a warning displayed by dpkg-genchanges if the current version is
     smaller than the previous one. Closes: #4655
   * Add -d and -c options in dpkg-checkbuilddeps to override
     build-depends/conflicts. Closes: #114774
   * Include list of libraries in dpkg-gensymbols' warning about new/lost
     libraries.
   * Add -R option to dpkg-buildpackage so that one can replace the usual
     "debian/rules" by something else. Closes: #355654
   * Always list all binary packages in the Description: field of .changes
     files. It's nice for reviewers and mentors.debian.net was using this field
     on source only uploads to display short description of what the package is
     about.
   * Handle the case when the library has a different SONAME than the one used
     to find it. Closes: #462413
   * Fix Dpkg::Version and Dpkg::Fields::Object to import _g() from
     Dpkg::Gettext. Thanks to Adam Heath and Olivier Berger for spotting
     this. Closes: #465651
   * Change PATH during make check to look into build directories containing
     dpkg and the related scripts. Thanks to Mike Frysinger. Closes: #466957
   * Some lintian cleanup:
     - add overrides for some useless I: tags
     - drop unused overrides
     - updated several manual pages to fix hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
     - fixed manpage-has-errors-from-man in several manual pages
   * Removed old upgrade code from dpkg's preinst and postinst which only
     concerns upgrading from dpkg version older than the one in oldstable
     already. And thus we get rid of old the last usage of read in those
     scripts (fixes lintian's warning read-in-maintainer-script).
   * Removed sorting of dependencies in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source. But
     kept it for all other fields (Enhances, Conflicts, Replaces, Breaks,
     Build-Conflicts and Build-Conflicts-Indep).
   * Instead changed dpkg-shlibdeps to sort the dependencies generated in
     ${shlibs:*} variables.
   * Changed the logic of simplification of dependencies: if any dependency
     must be discarded due to another dependency appearing further
     in the field, the superseding dependency will take the place of the
     discarded one. Added a test case for this.
 .
   [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
   * Add a warning in dpkg-buildpackage if the build-dependencies are not
     satisfied during -S. Closes: #445552
   * Add a missing space in the German scripts translation. Closes: #463398
   * Add improved deb-shlibs.5 manual page by Zack Weinberg. Closes: #466135
   * dpkg-buildpackage exports some build related environment variables
     now. Based on a patch by Matthias Klose. Closes: #465282
     (See dpkg-buildpackage(1) and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags
      for details)
   * Add support for use of SHA1 and SHA256 checksums in .dsc and
     .changes files. Information will be available in Checksums-Sha{1,256}
     fields. .changes format version increased to 1.8.
   * Link dselect against libncursesw (using appropriate -I). Closes: #466321
   * Forward port a patch from the old changelog parser to the new
     one that got lost during the transition. '+' and '.' can now
     be used in distribution names yet again. Reported by dann frazier.
     Closes: #467470
 .
   [ Updated dpkg translations ]
   * Korean (Changwoo Ryu).
   * Polish (Robert Luberda).
   * Romanian (Eddy Petrișor).
   * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
   * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: 468916
 .
   [ Updated manpages translations ]
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
   * Polish (Robert Luberda).
   * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
 .
   [ Updated dselect translations ]
   * Basque. (Piarres beobide). Closes: #462403
 .
   [ Updated scripts translations ]
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
   * Polish (Robert Luberda).
   * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
 .
   [ Updated dselect translations ]
   * Polish (Robert Luberda).
   * Romanian (Eddy Petrișor).
Files: 
 b15605242ff62fb1c31fbba64e367115 1129 admin required dpkg_1.15.0.dsc
 8f17862f24eeba5ca62637dc2b779a53 4233198 admin required dpkg_1.15.0.tar.gz
 005c95ba8b0b60ae8db6cf636333882a 2098688 admin required dpkg_1.15.0_i386.deb
 4d4d875e600379d7538a0eee17e5c224 729038 admin optional dselect_1.15.0_i386.deb
 50a0f2c7f193aed9c4b4988486ce2bc7 496054 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.15.0_all.deb

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Message #53 received at 4655@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 114774@bugs.debian.org, 151540@bugs.debian.org, 311843@bugs.debian.org, 355654@bugs.debian.org, 379028@bugs.debian.org, 445552@bugs.debian.org, 448946@bugs.debian.org, 462225@bugs.debian.org, 462403@bugs.debian.org, 462413@bugs.debian.org, 463398@bugs.debian.org, 465282@bugs.debian.org, 4655@bugs.debian.org, 465651@bugs.debian.org, 466135@bugs.debian.org, 466321@bugs.debian.org, 466957@bugs.debian.org, 467470@bugs.debian.org, 468916@bugs.debian.org, 469520@bugs.debian.org

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:53:24 +0200

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# dpkg (1.14.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
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#  * Replace strdup plus error checking usage with a new m_strdup function.
#    Closes: #379028
#  * Add new keybinding in dselect to restore all selections back to
#    whatever's currently installed. Closes: #151540
#    Thanks to Colin Watson.
#  * Use system timersub and fix timeval normalization in multiplication in
#    start-stop-daemon. Thanks to Andreas Påhlsson. Closes: #462225
#  * Reintroduce 'no-debsig' back in dpkg.cfg to avoid failing to install any
#    package when debsig-verify is installed. Closes: #311843
#  * Fix some small memory leaks. Closes: #469520
#    Thanks to Sean Finney.
#  * Implement 'Breaks' properly in dselect. Closes: #448946
#    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
#  * Add a warning displayed by dpkg-genchanges if the current version is
#    smaller than the previous one. Closes: #4655
#  * Add -d and -c options in dpkg-checkbuilddeps to override
#    build-depends/conflicts. Closes: #114774
#  * Add -R option to dpkg-buildpackage so that one can replace the usual
#    "debian/rules" by something else. Closes: #355654
#  * Handle the case when the library has a different SONAME than the one used
#    to find it. Closes: #462413
#  * Fix Dpkg::Version and Dpkg::Fields::Object to import _g() from
#    Dpkg::Gettext. Thanks to Adam Heath and Olivier Berger for spotting
#    this. Closes: #465651
#  * Change PATH during make check to look into build directories containing
#    dpkg and the related scripts. Thanks to Mike Frysinger. Closes: #466957
#  * Add a warning in dpkg-buildpackage if the build-dependencies are not
#    satisfied during -S. Closes: #445552
#  * Add a missing space in the German scripts translation. Closes: #463398
#  * Add improved deb-shlibs.5 manual page by Zack Weinberg. Closes: #466135
#  * dpkg-buildpackage exports some build related environment variables
#    now. Based on a patch by Matthias Klose. Closes: #465282
#    (See dpkg-buildpackage(1) and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags
#     for details)
#  * Link dselect against libncursesw. Closes: #466321
#  * Forward port a patch from the old changelog parser to the new
#    one that got lost during the transition. '+' and '.' can now
#    be used in distribution names yet again. Reported by dann frazier.
#    Closes: #467470
#  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: 468916
#  * Basque. (Piarres beobide). Closes: #462403
#

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