On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 01:15:49AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > Can you please help me by formulating a clear problem / question and if > possible some expected things that you would like to have as a result?
Sure. This is a packaging bug in debian/rules. Packages must build for the end user with plain "dpkg-buildpackage" but also in the official autobuilders by doing "dpkg-buildpackage -A" (to generate arch-all packages) or "dpkg-buildpackage -B" (to generate arch-indep packages). Either of those failing is a FTBFS bug, hence the serious severity. To reproduce the problem, please try building the package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A", which is exactly what the arch:all autobuilder would do if the package was uploaded in source-only form. The hint of splitting dh_foo into dh_foo-arch and dh_foo-indep usually works for packages that use dh and have this bug, i.e. for packages which build ok when built with plain "dpkg-buildpackage" but not with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" or "dpkg-buildpackage -B". Thanks.