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