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Category Archives: Debhelper
“debhelper-compat (= 12)” is now released
A few days ago, we released debhelper/12 and yesterday uploaded it to stretch-backports (as debhelper/12~bpo9+1). We deliberately released debhelper/12 so it would be included in buster for the people, who backport their packages to older releases via stable-backports. That said, … Continue reading
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Build system changes in debhelper
Since debhelper/11.2.1[1], we now support using cmake for configure and ninja for build + test as an alternative to cmake for configure and make for build + test. This change was proposed by Kyle Edwards in Debian bug #895044. You … Continue reading
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Prototyping a new packaging papercut fix – DRY for the debhelper compat level
Have you ever looked at packaging and felt it is a long exercise in repeating yourself? If you have, you are certainly not alone. You can find examples of this on the Debian mailing lists (among other places). Such as … Continue reading
Building packages without (fake)root
Turns out that it is surprisingly easy to build most packages without (fake)root. You just need to basic changes: A way to set ownership to “root:root” of paths when dpkg-deb –build constructs the binary. A way to have debhelper not … Continue reading
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Introducing the debhelper buildlabel prototype for multi-building packages
For most packages, the “dh” short-hand rules (possibly with a few overrides) work great. It can often auto-detect the buildsystem and handle all the trivial parts. With one notably exception: What if you need to compile the upstream code twice … Continue reading
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Improving bulk performance in debhelper
Since debhelper/10.3, there has been a number of performance related changes. The vast majority primarily improves bulk performance or only have visible effects at larger “input” sizes. Most visible cases are: dh + dh_* now scales a lot better for … Continue reading
Approaching the exclusive “sub-minute” build time club
For the first time in at least two years (and probably even longer), debhelper with the 10.6.2 upload broke the 1 minute milestone for build time (by mere 2 seconds – look for “Build needed 00:00:58, […]”). Sadly, the result … Continue reading
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debhelper 10.5.1 now available in unstable
Earlier today, I uploaded debhelper version 10.5.1 to unstable. The following are some highlights compared to version 10.2.5: debhelper now supports the “meson+ninja” build system. Kudos to Michael Biebl. Better cross building support in the “makefile” build system (PKG_CONFIG is … Continue reading
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debhelper 10 is now available
Today, debhelper 10 was uploaded to unstable and is coming to a mirror near you “really soon now”. The actual changes between version “9.20160814” and version “10” are rather modest. However, it does mark the completion of debhelper compat 10, … Continue reading
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Anti-declarative packaging – top 15 build-helpers inserting maintscripts
Debian packages can run arbitrary code via “maintainer scripts” (sometimes shortened into “maintscripts”) during installation/removal etc. While they certainly have their use cases, their failure modes causes “exciting” bugs like “fails to install” or the dreaded “fails to remove”. They … Continue reading
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