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* Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> [2022-12-07 22:30]:
Package: src:octave-vrml
Version: 1.0.13-7
Tags: ftbfs
Dear Maintainer:
Today I tried to build this package from source and this is what happened:
dh_missing -i -O--buildsystem=octave
dh_octave_substvar -i -O--buildsystem=octave
dh_installdeb -i -O--buildsystem=octave
dh_gencontrol -i -O--buildsystem=octave
dpkg-gencontrol: error: bad line in substvars file
debian/octave-vrml.substvars at line 2
dh_gencontrol: error: dpkg-gencontrol -poctave-vrml -ldebian/changelog
-Tdebian/octave-vrml.substvars -Pdebian/octave-vrml returned exit code 255
dh_gencontrol: error: Aborting due to earlier error
make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-indep subprocess
returned exit status 2
The file debian/octave-vrml.substvars seems in fact to be broken:
octave:Depends=octave (>= 7.3.0), octave-linear-algebra,
octave-miscellaneous, octave-statistics
, octave-struct
octave:Upstream-Description=3D graphics using VRML
misc:Depends=
misc:Pre-Depends=
After getting this build failure for the first time I tried to build
it more times to be sure and it failed most of the time, but not
always, so be warned that the bug is random and you might have to try
several times before getting a build failure.
For what is worth: The failure also happens here, so I'm quite
confident that my build environment is not to blame:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/logs/unstable/amd64/octave-vrml_1.0.13-7.build2.log.gz
[ I'm using X-debbugs-cc with debhelper maintainers in case they have
something to say about this ].
Thanks for the bug report.
The issue is caused by a bug in the dh_octave_substvar script, from the
dh-octave package. I am looking at it. More to come soon.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
