Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.16
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
I was happy to see the change to make debhelper only act on packages
relevant to the current architecture as it allows to remove a workaround
that was needed in netcfg after the switch to dh 7 [1].
However, it turns out that this change causes a new build failure in
netcfg, again for s390.
The binary package 'netcfg' is not built for s390, only netcfg-static.
But debian/rules has the following:
override_dh_installdebconf:
dh_installdebconf
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-common.templates ) \
>> debian/netcfg-static/DEBIAN/templates
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-common.templates )\
>> debian/netcfg/DEBIAN/templates
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-dhcp.templates )\
>> debian/netcfg/DEBIAN/templates
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-static.templates )\
>> debian/netcfg/DEBIAN/templates
This now fails with:
debian/rules override_dh_installdebconf
make[1]: Entering directory `/srv/project/d-i/trunk/packages/netcfg'
dh_installdebconf
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-common.templates ) \
>> debian/netcfg-static/DEBIAN/templates
(echo ; po2debconf debian/netcfg-common.templates )\
>> debian/netcfg/DEBIAN/templates
/bin/sh: cannot create debian/netcfg/DEBIAN/templates: Directory nonexistent
make[1]: *** [override_dh_installdebconf] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/srv/project/d-i/trunk/packages/netcfg'
make: *** [binary] Error 2
This could of course be fixed with an arch test, but that would mean
an extra cost of maintaining that arch test with changes in supported
arches in debian/control. The previous behavior made that unnecessary.
I suspect there are many more packages that rely on the fact that general
preparation of a binary has always been done even if the binary is not
valid for the current arch and that this change may cause e.g. binNMUs to
suddenly fail. Maybe not a good idea at this stage of the Squeeze release
process.
[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/netcfg/debian/?rev=61127&sc=1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base 5.10.1-11 minimal Perl system
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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