Hi, You already closed this but ...
I was wondering about this too since this broke debmake-doc example generation. E: debhello: changelog-is-dh_make-template W: debhello: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/hello dpkg-buildpackage: error: lintian ../debhello_0.0-1_amd64.changes gave error exit status 1 debuild: fatal error at line 1100: On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:02:16AM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:51:21AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: ... > Actually, it's just that dpkg-buildpackage checks the exit status of the > check command (lintian in this case) where as debuild didn't used to do > that. > > Lintian has an exit status of 1 because there were errors. I actually > think this is an improvement over what debuild did, since errors in the > check command shouldn't be ignored. I think this new behavior is good, too. I will fix my package. It will be nice to mention this new behavior in the "HOOKS" section of the debuild(1) manpage. Please mention it actually calls dpkg-buildpackage hooks now and the error code of the hook script is respected. Also, dpkg-buildpackage(1) may need some updates. Regards, Osamu