[debhelper-devel] Bug#895174: glib2.0 FTBFS: fails to execute ninja

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2018 at 09:49:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Current glib2.0 source can be built with either meson or autotools, and
> debian/rules should probably specify which one to use.  Feel free
> reassign a clone of this bug back to glib2.0 for that, but "debian/rules
> clean" even fails when meson is installed, which looks like a serious
> problem in debhelper.

meson is like cmake, or a mixture of Autotools and configure: it
implements the dh_auto_configure step. ninja is like make: it implements
the dh_auto_build step.

    smcv