Control: affects -1 src:xterm
Control: severity -1 serious
On 2022-04-19 13:59 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Control: affects -1 src:openssh
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 12:05:22PM +0900, Hiroyuki YAMAMORI wrote:
>> When rebuilding rsh-redone, the following message is output and the build
>> fails.
>>
>> dh_installalternatives: error: Alternative "/usr/bin/rsh-redone-rsh" for
>> "rsh" in debian/rsh-redone-client.alternatives does not exist in
>> debian/rsh-redone-client or is a directory
>> make: *** [debian/rules:16: binary] Error 25
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit
>> status 2
>>
>>
>> Solved with the following patch.
>>
>> --- a/usr/bin/dh_installalternatives
>> +++ b/usr/bin/dh_installalternatives
>> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ sub _parse_alternative_and_generate_main
>> if (index($link_name, '/') > -1) {
>> error(qq{Invalid link name "${link_name}" in
>> "${alternatives_file}": Must not contain slash});
>> }
>> - if ( ! -l "${tmpdir}/${impl_path}" or -d _) {
>> + if ( ! -e "${tmpdir}/${impl_path}" or -d _ or ! -r _) {
>> error(qq{Alternative "${impl_path}" for "${link_name}" in
>> ${alternatives_file} does not exist in ${tmpdir} or is a directory});
>> }
>> if ($link_name eq $impl_path) {
>
> This also causes openssh to fail to build (see e.g.
> https://salsa.debian.org/flurb/openssh/-/jobs/2683517). Something like
> this patch looks reasonable to me, and at any rate the previous code
> doesn't make sense; it seems to require the potential *target* of the
> alternative to be a symlink.
I get the same error in xterm, so I have raised the severity as at
least three packages now fail to build.
Cheers,
Sven
