[debhelper-devel] Bug#867246: dh_installman incorrectly optimized away when using --fail-missing and building arch-any packages only

[Michael Stapelberg]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10.6.1
Severity: normal

See [1] for an example: commit [2] switched to dh_missing --fail-missing, which
works when building arch:all packages as well, but fails when building
architecture-dependent packages only (such as the buildds do).

This can be worked around by adding an override like so:

override_dh_installman:
	dh_installman

① https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git/tree/?id=feb85356a8e3f8931cf423ff215eaa54baa5dd03
② https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git/commit/?id=e3bdeee6e138f34f16ab500c04cf358ca6a3b17f

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20161112.1
ii  binutils                 2.28-6
ii  dh-autoreconf            14
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.035-2
ii  dpkg                     1.18.24
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.24
ii  file                     1:5.30-1
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.24
ii  man-db                   2.7.6.1-2
ii  perl                     5.24.1-4
ii  po-debconf               1.0.20

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201608

-- no debconf information