[Build-common-hackers] Bug#724281: Bug#724281: cdbs: license check a lot of time results in an error

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Giulio Paci (2013-09-23 19:03:11)
> On 23/09/2013 12:36, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Sounds like a problem with your build routines doing autoreconf and not 
> > cleaning up properly - or that the autoreconf'ing is applied before 
> > copyright check.
> 
> This was also my first thought.
> However:
> 1) the clean procedure works properly;
> 2) running manually the license check lines almost always produce
> different results (saving the output outside of the source tree).
> 
> By the way, today I noticed the same behaviour while packaging another 
> software. In this case I am not regenerating autoconf files at all, so 
> I think this is a real bug.

I just tried this:

  git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/sptk
  cd sptk
  debian/rules pre-build DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1
  fakeroot debian/rules clean DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1
  debian/copyright_newhints debian/copyright_hints
  debian/rules pre-build && fakeroot debian/rules clean

...which doesn't fail - even repeating last line several times.

Please provide a minimal set of commands to reproduce.

 - Jonas

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