Bug#843409: dose-builddebcheck --deb-triplettable needs to move to tupletable

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Hi,

On 10/01/2017 08:58, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Hi Josch,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>> Hi Ralf,
>>
>> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:56:51 +0100 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
>>> dose-builddebcheck has a built-in architecture table and allows
>>> replacing that by supplying --deb-triplettable. Unfortunately, the
>>> triplettable and its format disappeared from Debian with the dpkg
>>> 1.18.11 upload. Now the file is called "tupletable" and has a different
>>> format (and a versioned format). Thus it is no longer possible to
>>> replace dose's internal architecture mapping.
>>
>> what do you say? Should we bump this bug to severity serious because
>> triplettables are completely abandoned in Stretch and the functionality will
>> thus be useless?
> 
> Please don't, it will kick dose out of stretch unless you can fix it rapidly.
> Severity=serious is not justified since the bug concerns IMHO only a very
> limited number of users.
> 

I think that this can be discussed with the Release Team to see whether they
would accept a fix for this bug (potentially after Feb 5th, if the patch is
not ready 10 days before the freeze). Trading a known broken feature with a
patch that might get the functionality back is not a big risk.

> Maybe we can ask Helmut to provide a patch?
> 

We can. Adding him in the loop (as I guess submitters are not automatically
subscribed to bugs).

Cheers,

-- 
Mehdi