On 2018-09-18 14:09 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 11.4
> Severity: serious
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for maintaining and extending debhelper!
>
> I don't have much information right now, maybe I'll look into it in
> the evening (Eastern European time), but trying to build gforth in
> a chroot containing debhelper-11.4 results in a package where all
> the paths passed to the GNU configure script as "\$prefix/something"
> are actually defined as "/something", thus placing binaries in /bin,
> include files in /include, etc. Installing debhelper-11.3.5 fixes
> the problem.
Bisection shows that commit a7ec05c10093f ("dh: Track which options have
been passed") has triggered the problem. I had a look at the gforth
build logs with debhelper 11.3.5 and 11.4, but could not spot an obvious
cause. Maybe Niels has more luck.
Cheers,
Sven
