[debhelper-devel] Bug#844112: debhelper: Build contents different between architectures

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10.2.2
Severity: important

I'm the maintainer of linuxinfo. For a while I wondered about a
lintian error about an empty directory (which clearly wasn't empty).

I just reported it: #844105

It turned out that on amd64 the man pages (using po4a) are built,
while on any other architecture they are not. And due to a (now
partially superfluous) debian/dirs this got evident.

More precisely:
On amd64 the build says:
…
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po'
Making install in po4a
make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
for lang in `sed -ne 's/^.*\[po4a_langs\] \(.*\)$/\1/p' ./po4a.cfg`; do \
        files=""; \
        for trans in linuxinfo.1; do \
                if [ -f /tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a/$lang/$trans ]; then \
                        files="$files /tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a/$lang/$trans"; \
                elif [ -f ./$lang/$trans ]; then \
                        files="$files ./$lang/$trans"; \
                fi; \
        done; \
        make install-man \
                mandir="/usr/share/man/$lang" \
                man_MANS="" \
                dist_man_MANS="$files"; \
done
make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/cs/man1'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a/cs/linuxinfo.1 '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/cs/man1'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
…
 /bin/mkdir -p '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/ru/man1'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a/ru/linuxinfo.1 '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/ru/man1'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/man1'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 linuxinfo.1 '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/debian/linuxinfo/usr/share/man/man1'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/bar/linuxinfo-2.4.2-3/po4a'
…

All is fine.

However, looking at the buildds, e.g. mips, I see:
…
 make[2]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/po'
 Making check in po4a
 make[2]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/po4a'
 make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
 make[2]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/po4a'
 make[2]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
 make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check-am'.
 make[2]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
…

My debian/rules is almost as simple as possible:
#!/usr/bin/make -f

%:
        dh $@  --with autotools_dev




-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.5samd.10-grsec (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.27-9+b1
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.028-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.10
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.10
ii  file                     1:5.29-1
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.10
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  po-debconf               1.0.20

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201608

-- no debconf information

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