Bug#887571: [debhelper-devel] Bug#887571: debhelper: dh lies about what it does, breaks builds by creating new files, etc

2018-01-17 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Niels, > I suspect it might be the shell. Make resets SHELL to /bin/sh AFAIR and > the error smells like a bashism with a non-bash shell. > export CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh This has been there since around 6 years ... so I am a bit surprised that this might have an influence, but I am retesting

Bug#887571: [debhelper-devel] Bug#887571: debhelper: dh lies about what it does, breaks builds by creating new files, etc

2018-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Norbert Preining: >> Package: debhelper >> Version: 11.1.2 >> Severity: serious >> Justification: breaks other packages >> >> Dear DebHelper developers, >> >> thanks for your efforts, but it would be very helpful if debhelper/dh >> would stick to

Bug#887571: [debhelper-devel] Bug#887571: debhelper: dh lies about what it does, breaks builds by creating new files, etc

2018-01-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Norbert Preining: > Package: debhelper > Version: 11.1.2 > Severity: serious > Justification: breaks other packages > > Dear DebHelper developers, > > thanks for your efforts, but it would be very helpful if debhelper/dh > would stick to what itself says it is doing. >

Bug#887571: debhelper: dh lies about what it does, breaks builds by creating new files, etc

2018-01-17 Thread Norbert Preining
Package: debhelper Version: 11.1.2 Severity: serious Justification: breaks other packages Dear DebHelper developers, thanks for your efforts, but it would be very helpful if debhelper/dh would stick to what itself says it is doing. I am trying to build texlive-bin, and somewhere at/around the