Package: debhelper Version: 9.20130507 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi!
The support for partial upgrades due to the install-info transitions is long unneeded now (lenny → squeeze upgrades). The attached patch removes the insertion of those dependencies. Thanks, Guillem
From 997b07491fd9e34bf2707652a4694c17ffac9465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:44:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dh_installinfo: Stop inserting dependencies for partial upgrades This was introduced in 2009 to support partial upgrades from lenny to squeeze, which are long time unneeded. --- dh_installinfo | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dh_installinfo b/dh_installinfo index c707a83..2c3d9e9 100755 --- a/dh_installinfo +++ b/dh_installinfo @@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) { doit("cp",@info,"$tmp/usr/share/info"); doit("chmod","-R", "go=rX","$tmp/usr/share/info/"); doit("chmod","-R", "u+rw","$tmp/usr/share/info/"); - # For transition, could be removed later. - addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info"); } } -- 1.8.3.rc1