Package: src:speech-dispatcher Version: 0.8-7 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,python3 dh_testroot -i dh_prep -i dh_auto_install -i make -j1 install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' Making install in include make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/include' make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/include' make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. /bin/mkdir -p '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/include/speech-dispatcher' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 spd_audio_plugin.h speechd_types.h '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/include/speech-dispatcher' make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/include' make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/include' Making install in src make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' Making install in common make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/common' make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/common' make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'. [... snipped ...] dh_strip_nondeterminism -i dh_compress -i debian/rules override_dh_fixperms make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' dh_fixperms chmod 700 /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/speech-dispatcher/var/log/speech-dispatcher chmod: cannot access '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/speech-dispatcher/var/log/speech-dispatcher': No such file or directory debian/rules:20: recipe for target 'override_dh_fixperms' failed make[1]: *** [override_dh_fixperms] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' debian/rules:6: 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.