Package: src:ekg2 Version: 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-10 User: sanv...@debian.org Usertags: binary-indep Severity: important
Dear maintainer: I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep dh binary-indep --with autoreconf,python2 --parallel dh_testroot -i -O--parallel dh_prep -i -O--parallel debian/rules override_dh_auto_install make[1]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1' perl_install_args="DESTDIR=/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp INSTALLDIRS=vendor" /usr/bin/make install DESTDIR=/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp make[2]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1' /usr/bin/make install-recursive make[3]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1' Making install in po make[4]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/po' /bin/sh ../build-aux/mkinstalldirs /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share mkdir -p -- /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share mkdir -p -- /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES installing pl.gmo as /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ekg2.mo mkdir -p -- /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES installing de.gmo as /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ekg2.mo if test "ekg2" = "gettext-tools"; then \ /bin/sh ../build-aux/mkinstalldirs /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/gettext/po; \ for file in Makefile.in.in remove-potcdate.sin quot.sed boldquot.sed en@quot.header en@boldquot.header insert-header.sin Rules-quot Makevars.template; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file \ [... snipped ...] make[1]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1' dh_installdocs --link-doc=ekg2-core -pekg2 -pekg2-dbg -pekg2-gnupg -pekg2-jabber \ -pekg2-scripting-python -pekg2-scripting-perl dh_installdocs: No packages to build. dh_installdocs --remaining-packages cp -a docs/ekg2book/book /<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/ekg2-core/usr/share/doc/ekg2-core/book-pl cp: cannot create directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1/debian/ekg2-core/usr/share/doc/ekg2-core/book-pl': No such file or directory debian/rules:84: recipe for target 'override_dh_installdocs' failed make[1]: *** [override_dh_installdocs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/ekg2-0.4~pre+20120506.1' debian/rules:12: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep gave error exit status 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to this one, but I can give some general hints: * If all the arch-independent packages are dummy transitional packages released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them now. * If not, debian/rules should be modified so that the binary-indep target works in all cases, even when binary-arch is not used (this is what the "Architecture: all" autobuilder does). For that: * If you are using debhelper, you might want to use options -a and -i for dh_* commands so that they do not act on packages they do not have to act. * Also, if you are using dh, the (independently) optional targets override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep (for several values of "foo") may be useful to write a debian/rules which behaves exactly as desired. After checking that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B" work properly, this package will be suitable to be uploaded in source-only form if you wish (you might want to try it). Thanks.