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dh_installchangelogs fails if version is 0

  1. Bionic (18.04)
  2. Bug #1766102
Bug #1766102 reported by Dan Kegel
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Bug Description

If the package's debian/changelog has a first line with version 0,
dh_installchangelogs fails with

dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure

This is fixed upstream, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894895

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: debhelper 11.1.6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-119.143-generic 4.4.114
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 22 16:31:02 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: debhelper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Dan Kegel (dank) wrote :
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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote : Re: [Bug 1766102] [NEW] dh_installchangelogs fails if version is 0

Dan Kegel:
> Public bug reported:
>
> If the package's debian/changelog has a first line with version 0,
> dh_installchangelogs fails with
>
> dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure
>
> This is fixed upstream, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894895
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: debhelper 11.1.6ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-119.143-generic 4.4.114
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-119-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu6
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun Apr 22 16:31:02 2018
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: debhelper
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> ** Affects: debhelper (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
>

Hi,

This should have been fixed in debhelper/11.2 as a part of
https://bugs.debian.org/894895.

Thanks,
~Niels

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Dan Kegel (dank) wrote :

(Right... that's why I linked to that bug.
It would have been nice if I had noticed this problem a month ago, apologies...)

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote : Re: [Bug 1766102] Re: dh_installchangelogs fails if version is 0

Dan Kegel:
> (Right... that's why I linked to that bug.

Apologies; I just hit reply when I saw the subject. I had not seen you
had already referenced relevant upstream bug. :)

Thanks,
~Niels

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in debhelper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in debhelper (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Adam Conrad (adconrad)
Changed in debhelper (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: rls-bb-notfixing
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