Please backport debhelper 10.4ubuntu3 (main) from artful

[Mario Limonciello]

Please backport debhelper 10.4ubuntu3 (main) from artful to zesty, xenial, yakkety

Reason for the backport:
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Debhelper 10.3 introduced support for building with meson. This makes other backports possible.

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s artful -d zesty debhelper

* zesty:
[x] Package builds without modification
[ ] dh-systemd installs cleanly and runs
[ ] debhelper installs cleanly and runs

* yakkety:
[x] Package builds without modification
[ ] dh-systemd installs cleanly and runs
[ ] debhelper installs cleanly and runs

* xenial:
[x] Package builds without modification
[ ] dh-systemd installs cleanly and runs
[ ] debhelper installs cleanly and runs

Tests for building were done here:
https://launchpad.net/~dell-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

In terms of installation - it doesn't install straight properly on any of the releases unless dpkg is also backported.

See this from debhelper changelog:

  * Generate ddebs from debhelper instead of pkg-create-dbgsym (LP: #1623256)
    - Make debhelper Conflict/Replace pkg-create-dbgsym to force it off.
    - Revert the revert that disabled debhelper's attempts to do dbgsyms.
    - Mirror udeb code in dh_builddeb to allow us to alter file extension.
    - Set dbgsym Package-Type to ddeb to get correct debian/files output.
    - Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.18.23ubuntu3) so the above works correctly.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

@laney, not sure if you can comment more on the intention with that above^ Should that only be going on for artful? Or will you intend to also generate dbgsym packages differently on xenial and yakkety and zesty?

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Not sure - check with the Launchpad folks maybe?

Otherwise, I guess you could drop that change for the backport and keep the revert we had previously.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

Hello,

the backports process has recently been updated, please see the new documentation:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

I'm closing this bug, but please feel free to open a new bug (or reopen this bug) using the new process, if appropriate.