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--- Begin Message ---Package: am-utils Version: 6.1.5-3 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: no longer builds from source If, for some reason or other, one changes the configure.in file and tries to rebuild the am-utils package, and a newer version of autconf is installed then am-utils fails to build at the dh_ins For example: Script started on Fri 25 Apr 2008 03:11:40 PM CEST [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/am-utils-6.1.5$ rm configure [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/am-utils-6.1.5$ autoconf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/am-utils-6.1.5$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is am-utils dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 6.1.5-3 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386 dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 6.1.5-3 [...] dh_install --fail-missing -a -i cp: cannot stat `debian/tmp/usr/info': No such file or directory dh_install: command returned error code 256 make: *** [install] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/am-utils-6.1.5$ exit Script done on Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:11:47 PM CEST The problem is that as of autoconf 2.61-4 "infodir" is by default /usr/share/info, not /usr/info like the debian/autoconf-doc.install file expects. A workaround is to force infodir on the make install step in debian/rules: --- am-utils-6.1.5/debian/rules.orig 2008-04-25 15:11:57.000000000 +0200 +++ am-utils-6.1.5/debian/rules 2008-04-25 16:19:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ dh_installdirs $(MAKE) prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr \ + infodir=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/info \ mandir=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/share/man install rm -fr debian/tmp/usr/etc rm debian/tmp/usr/sbin/lostaltmail -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-ssi-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages am-utils depends on: ii debconf 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii libamu4 6.1.5-3 Support library for amd the 4.4BSD ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libhesiod0 3.0.2-18.1 Libraries for hesiod, a service na ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii perl 5.8.8-7etch1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii portmap 5-9.ssi2 The RPC portmapper ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv am-utils recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If, for some reason or other, one changes the configure.in file and > tries to rebuild the am-utils package, and a newer version of autconf is > installed then am-utils fails to build at the dh_ins Don't do that then. What you're saying is that your modified version of the Debian package fails to build from source. This is not a bug in the Debian package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus
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