Ivo De Decker dixit:

>> Oh. I used reportbug --from-buildd= option. Apparently it
>> does not DTRT but parse the filename. Thanks, will not use
>> it in the future or do manual checking.
>
>Isn't that a bug in reportbug, then?

I don’t know. The --from-buildd=srcpkg_vsn option is designed
for bugreports from a buildd, which will not have the package
otherwise available normally. Epochs are excluded from the
package version as encoded in pathnames, so this is likely a
user error.

I think reportbug could accept a .dsc filename as argument
to --from-buildd and then parse that one instead of taking
its filename, falling back to the latter only if the former
fails. That would be reasonable; anything else would not be
reasonable to ask from reportbug AFAICT.

>The rules file should set DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH, but doesn't, so this is
>the cause of the bug. I'm retitling this bug report to reflect that.

Okay.

>Please note that DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not used in the rules file, but the
>debian patches use this variable in other makefiles.

Right, but without it being made available, that won’t work
as desired ;-)

>> maybe /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk is also needed?
>
>Just defining DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH isn't enough: the variable is used by the
>build. It should be exported too.

Oh, okay. With GNU make, I never quite know when it exports
a variable and when not. (I’m personally more used to BSD make.)

>Here is a patch that fixes the build:

Wow, thanks for your quick reaction!

Have a nice holidays,
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