[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#482456: sbuild: Build package with epoch in a directory name containing a colon, leading make to fail

[Raphael Hertzog]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.57.3-1
Severity: important

When you implemented the change to give explicitely the directory in which
to unpack the source package, you included the full version in the name of
that directory... however quite a few packages have epochs and their
version contains a colon. When you put a filename with a colon
as a dependency of some make target, it can lead to strange failures
with messages "*** multiple target patterns.  Stop.".

See for example the enigmail package:
[...]
 /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
make -f /build/user-enigmail_2:0.95.0+1-3.1-amd64-eHJUfP/enigmail_0.95.0+1-3.1/debian/rules.thunderbird MOZ_APP_NAME=icedove clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/build/user-enigmail_2:0.95.0+1-3.1-amd64-eHJUfP/enigmail_0.95.0+1-3.1'
/build/user-enigmail_2:0.95.0+1-3.1-amd64-eHJUfP/enigmail_0.95.0+1-3.1/debian/rules.thunderbird:56: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/user-enigmail_2:0.95.0+1-3.1-amd64-eHJUfP/enigmail_0.95.0+1-3.1'
make: *** [clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
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This is a fairly important regression, it affects at least 28 source packages.
Please choose a directory name with the version stripped from its epoch. Ideally
you would use the official name "<source>-<upstream>" so that you also avoid
the warnings that appear in some cases:
dpkg-source: warning: .orig directory name xjump_2.7.5-4.orig is not <package>-<upstreamversion> (wanted xjump-2.7.5.orig)

Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.107      add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                           0.7.12     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  dctrl-tools                   2.12       Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  devscripts                    2.10.28    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.19    package building tools for Debian
ii  perl                          5.10.0-10  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-10  Core Perl modules
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.2-0    High-performance mail transport ag
ii  schroot                       1.2.0-1    Execute commands in a chroot envir

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.9      Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.5      Gives a fake root environment

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