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Package: fileutils
Version: 4.0i-1
I've noticed that the 'install' in new fileutils breaks some Debian
builds, because it now aborts with error code when strip returns an
error code.
Concrete example: I built emacs19, and got:
> m68k-debian-linux && /bin/pwd)` != `(cd
> /usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/lib-src && /bin/pwd)` ]; then
> for file in rcs2log vcdiff; do install -s
> /usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/lib-src/$file
> /usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/debian/tmp/usr/lib/emacs/19.34/m68k-debian-linux/$file;
> done ; fi
> strip:
> /usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/debian/tmp/usr/lib/emacs/19.34/m68k-debian-linux/rcs2log:
> File format not recognized
> install: strip failed
> strip:
> /usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/debian/tmp/usr/lib/emacs/19.34/m68k-debian-linux/vcdiff:
> File format not recognized
> install: strip failed
> make[2]: ***
> [/usr/local/build/buildd/emacs19-19.34/debian/tmp/usr/lib/emacs/19.34/m68k-debian-linux]
> Error 1
rcs2log and vcdiff are shell scripts. It's ok that strip fails on
them, but install shouldn't care about that. At least, I can't
remember that it did in the past.
And I guess lots of packages simply use install -s on all kinds of
executables, no matter if they're real binaries or scripts. So this
change of behaviour is likely to break lots of builds...
Roman
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Well, this one is still wontfix. Presumably there aren't many
installation scripts which depend on the old behavior, 8 years later.
Mike Stone
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