Package: debhelper Version: 13.3.4 Severity: normal Hello,
in #929165 Hideki wanted to use rm_conffile to remove junk from earlier versions, notably files containing spaces and wildcards in their name: ./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive, ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg ./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg, * Which would be straightforward enough, adding debian/maintscript with these contents (using "hello" as package name for demonstration purposes): rm_conffile '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive, ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg' '2.10-2.2~' 'hello' rm_conffile '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg, *' '2.10-2.2~' 'hello' Which works perfectly well with ancient (DH 9 compat level) but throws an error with compat level 13: ----------- (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ dh_installdeb --no-act --verbose dh_installdeb: error: The current conffile path for rm_conffile must be present and absolute, got '/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive, ----------- Looking at /usr/bin/dh_installdeb one finds a check for a literal "/" as leading character of the first argument of rm_conffile. Just for the fun of it, I have try escaping instead of quoting, but the check splits on space. ------------ (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ cat debian/hello.maintscript rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,\ ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg '2.10-2.2~' 'hello' rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2016-dbgsym.gpg,\ \* '2.10-2.2~' 'hello' (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/HELLODH13/hello-2.10$ dh_installdeb --no-act --verbose dh_installdeb: error: The version for rm_conffile /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cloud-archive,\ is not valid, got ubuntu-cloud-removed-keys.gpg ------------ cu Andreas
