Cyril Brulebois: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.10 > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Justification: triggers FTBFS > > [ Please keep both debian-boot@ and myself in the loop, thanks. ] > > Hi, > > debian-installer uses compat 7, a build/ directory, and its daily-build > script is started from this directory. Makefiles use dh_testroot from > that directory, and starting with 10.10, the build is broken because of:
Hi Cyril I am sorry to hear that this broke a build for you. > [...] > It seems to me that's due to the getpackages call addition, but I don't > think it's reasonable for debhelper to break compat 7 this way. Unfortunately, I cannot even fix this by guarding it with a compat bump (because that will die as it cannot find debian/compat). For now, I will have it issue a warning and continue (plus make some assumptions about what the d/control file would have contained). But eventually, I will remove that fallback and that *cannot* happen with a compat bump. For you, an easy fix appears be to re-arrange the lines: dh_testroot @[ -d ../debian ] || { echo "directory '../debian' [...] } Into: @[ -d ../debian ] || { echo "directory '../debian' [...] } cd .. && dh_testroot (Only occurs two places AFAICT in the Makefile). This change would also be backwards compatible for you. > Also, > even if one might object d-i is abusing dh_testroot (or using it > incorrectly), its documented purpose is: > | dh_testroot simply checks to see if you are root. If not, it exits > | with an error. Debian packages must be built as root, though you can > | use fakeroot(1) > > > KiBi. > [...] The scope of dh_testroot has changed and I have committed an update of the documentation of dh_testroot targeting 10.10.1. Furthermore, I have added a note in debhelper.7 that all debhelper tools must be run from the unpacked source root (except where otherwise noted). Thanks, ~Niels