Package: debhelper,dh-dist-zilla
Version: debhelper/10.10.6
Severity: serious
Tags: sid buster
Control: affects -1 src:roary src:systray-mdstat
Hi,
Sascha Steinbiss <sa...@debian.org> (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed) made me aware
that at least two dh-dist-zilla based source packages (roary and
systray-mdstat) produce more or less empty packages when build now
(but don't FTBFS and in case of systray-mdstat not even throw a single
lintian warning).
An DH_VERBOSE=1 build log reveals that dh_auto_install is no more
called in the build. (This probably also counts for other dh_auto_*
scripts.) This smells a lot like being caused by this change in
debhelper/10.10.6 (uploaded November 2017, i.e. shortly after the
latest uploads of the two mentioned packages):
* dh,dh_auto_*: Support skipping all of the dh_auto_* helpers if the
package does not seem to have a build system (and there are no
build system related options passed to dh).
Which is this commit:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/?id=52bf7ef7
Reverting this commit fixes the issue as dh_auto_install is called
again.
So I now wonder:
* Is this a bug in debhelper? I.e. does the new (additional?)
buildsystem detection not work properly?
* Or is this a bug in dh-dist-zilla and it should have declared
something in
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/dist_zilla.pm
which wasn't relevant yet, but is now?
Regards, Axel
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