Package: debhelper Version: 9.20160115 Severity: important Hi,
A few (Haskell) packages fail to build because addsubstvar in Dh_Lib.pm, which uses grep, falls over unicode characters in existing substvar lines. It makes lines like Binary file debian/libghc-gitit-doc.substvars matches appear in the substvar file, which obviously breaks. The fix is simple: In Dh_Lib.pm, replace calls to "grep -s -v" with "grep -a -s -v". Greetings, Joachim -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers buildd-unstable APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20150820.1 ii binutils 2.26-4 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.015-1 ii dpkg 1.18.4 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.4 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.4 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii perl 5.22.1-7 ii po-debconf 1.0.19 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information