Getting a fakeroot-ng fix into Lenny
Hello,
I have just uploaded to Sid fakeroot-ng version 0.12-2. It has three
changes, all but one minor in scope.
1. Upstream (which is me, but anyways) had a serious bug (#493061). It
was marked "normal" when originally filed against debhelper. After some
research it turned out that the problem was due to the submitter setting
"fakeroot" to point to "fakeroot-ng" through the alternatives mechanism.
While it may be "normal" for debhelper, for fakeroot-ng it is at least
"important", possibly even "grave".
The fix had to do with initializing order of state variables in the
handling of "unlinkat". Like I said - an upstream bug. Since, as
upstream, I have already readied version 0.13, which does some changes
to the build system, I decided to backport just this fix.
Why should it go in: From Mark's email: An "important" bug in package in
an "extra" package, uploaded through unstable. One may claim that not
being able to erase files when going through fakeroot is actually a
"grave" level bug.
2. While building the update I noticed a FTBS twice problem with the
package (bug #495174). According to info from the debian devel list,
FTBS twice is a release goal for Lenny. The fix is an extremely trivial
one - add a TAB or erase empty lines in the debian/rules "clean" rule.
Since the demand for a "clean" target in debian/clean target is part of
the Debian Policy (4.9) as a "must" instruction, I tagged this bug as
Serious.
Why should it go in: fix for a release critical bug. Requires changes in
white spaces only, extremely trivial.
3. A minor issue, but an equally minor fix. Lintian gives a false
positive regarding fakeroot-ng 0.12-1. When attempting to detect command
invocations in the maintainer scripts, it does not treat continuation
lines properly. A bug was filed against it (495176). In order to remove
the Lintian warning from fakeroot-ng, I change a line in postinst that
had a command spread across four lines for readability to spread across
three lines instead. The entire change involves removal of a backslash
and a newline from a script.
Why should it go in: EXTREMELY small change, with no possibility of side
effects, which cleans up the report for the package.
Due to all of the above, I kindly ask that you allow fakeroot-ng version
0.12-2 from Sid into Lenny.
Thanks,
Shachar
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