On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:09 PM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:28:10 -0500, Robert J. Clay wrote:
>
> > There is an ITP [1] I've been working on, wherein Debian package build
> > attempts just result in an error lke the following:
> >
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Config.pm', needed by 'Makefile'.
> > Stop.
>
> Stray Makefile in the tarball?
>
> (Downloading the tarball says "yes, there is a Makefile".)
>
Yes, indeed! (don't know how I missed it...)
>
> > It comes up when attempting to use 'gbp buildpackage' or 'debuild' [2],
> > under stretch, sid, or jessie. It does not come up when doing a normal
> > Perl module build ('perl Makefile.PL && make test', for instance).
>
> The former two call `debian/rules clean' which calls `make clean' as
> there is a Makefile, which fails as it was created by `perl
> Makefile.PL' on the authors machince with perl 5.20 installed.
>
> In the latter case, your `perl Makefile.PL' rewrites the Makefile.
>
> > It also
> > does not come up attempting a Debian test build of another ITP I have.
> > (Can't finish that one because it's dependent on this one...)
>
> Luckily, these failures in `make dist' on the upstream side are quite
> rare :)
>
> Not sure what the quickest workaround is: Either putting Makefile in
> debian/clean
Tried that but it didn't seem to work. Think it's seeing that existing
Makefile too soon
> or re-running `perl Makefile.PL' in
> override_dh_auto_clean if the Makefile is around [0] or repacking the
> tarball.
>
> Of course asking upstream to release a fixed tarball what benefit
> everyone :)
>
I've already contacted upstream about it, so I'll see what they say.
>
> libamazon-sqs-simple-perl/debian/rules does the
> override_dh_auto_clean dance with a comment:
>
I'll take a look at how that works...
--
Robert J. Clay
rjc...@gmail.com
