Package: src:gnuchess-book
Version: 1.02-1
Severity: serious
Dear maintainer:
I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed:
[...]
debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep
dh_testdir -i
dh_update_autotools_config -i
dh_auto_configure -i
debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory '/<>'
dh_testdir book_1.02.pgn
# Spam only if stdout is a tty
Building book.
make[1]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make[1]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
Build killed with signal TERM after 60 minutes of inactivity
Because this source package only generates "Arch: all" packages, this
is the same as a FTBFS bug in the usual sense and the fact that I was
using "dpkg-buildpackage -A" is quite irrelevant.
For this particular package, I've also checked that it fails to build
from source in the reproducible builds site:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/
You will notice that my autobuilder waited "only" for 60 minutes
before giving up. Well, the autobuilder from reproducible builds
waited for 18 hours.
The end result was the same: The build had to be killed.
Thanks.
