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--- Begin Message ---Package: dh-r Version: 20161219 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, I'm using dh-r in a package (not yet uploaded to debian) where R sources are not at the root of the package. Hence, I'm using: %: dh $@ --sourcedirectory path/to/R/sources The package fails to build at the install step as it cannot find the DESCRIPTION file. Looking at the source, it seems that, indeed, at this place, the DESCRIPTION file is assumed to be at the root of the package. Here is a small patch that fix the problem for me: --- /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/R.pm 2016-12-19 11:22:15.000000000 +0100 +++ ../R.pm 2017-10-08 22:19:43.008443841 +0200 @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ } sub parse_description { + my $this=shift; my $desc = Dpkg::Control->new(type => Dpkg::Control::CTRL_UNKNOWN); - $desc->load("DESCRIPTION"); + $desc->load($this->get_sourcepath("DESCRIPTION")); return $desc; } @@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ my $this = shift; my $destdir = shift; - my $desc = parse_description(); # key-value hash for the DESCRIPTION file + my $desc = $this->parse_description(); # key-value hash for the DESCRIPTION file my $srcctrl = Dpkg::Control::Info->new()->get_source(); my $sourcepackage = $this->sourcepackage(); Regards, Vincent -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dh-r depends on: ii dctrl-tools 2.24-2+b1 ii debhelper 10.9 ii r-base-dev 3.4.2-1 dh-r recommends no packages. dh-r suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 20180505 Hi, This bug was fixed in dh-r 20180505 [1] but d/changelog was incorrectly updated. The reference of this bug was assigned to the previous version 20180403. I don't know how this happened but the result is that this bug was not automatically closed. I will correct entry in d/changelog later. Best, Dylan [1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/commit/35b1b368
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