[debhelper-devel] Bug#887688: debhelper: empty build of src:ck

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-01-23 11:28 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:

>> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/libtemplate-perl.html
>
> Doesn't look the same to me, perhaps some separate regression involving
> --before/--remaining:
>
>  debian/rules build
> dh build --before dh_auto_configure
> dh: The --before option is deprecated. Use override targets instead.
>    dh_update_autotools_config
> [ ! -f /build/1st/libtemplate-perl-2.24/lib/Template/Config.pm.orig ] && cp /build/1st/libtemplate-perl-2.24/lib/Template/Config.pm /build/1st/libtemplate-perl-2.24/lib/Template/Config.pm.orig
> dh build --remaining
> dh: The --remaining option is deprecated. Use override targets instead.

I think the difference is that "dh binary" now runs "debian/rules build"
again (haven't investigated why), and the package's buildsystem is buggy
and fails if "debian/rules build" is run more than once, at least
without cleaning in between.

>> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/monotone.html
>
> New and exciting weirdness, but possibly also only worked in the past
> because of #880840 having not been fixed:
>
>    debian/rules build
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/1st/monotone-1.1'
> The build target is disabled, please use the appropriate binary target.
>
> (And yet it uses the same override_dh_auto_build for both, so this hack
> from 2007 is almost certainly wrong. I suspect that a rules file with
> a working build target would be considerably shorter than the comment
> that explains what is going on here...)

That rules file was surely written before dpkg-buildpackage gained
support for the build-arch and build-indep targets (#229357).

Cheers,
       Sven