[Letsencrypt-devel] Bug#806532: Bug#806532: FTBFS on jessie

[Francois Marier]

On 2015-12-06 at 09:00:06, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > Are you sure you're trying this on a clean and up-to-date jessie system?
> 
> Yes
> 
> I had noticed that the gnulib package was required and was not mentioned
> in the build-deps.  Could there be any other missing build dependency
> that you have on your system but I don't have on mine?

So I took another look at this. Are you running "git pbuilder" directly in
the package directory by any chance?

I just noticed this in README.distributors:

"To make this as easy as possible, setup.py does the following:
  - create or refresh (overwriting) ChangeLog from ChangeLog.init and the Git
    log if there is a .git subdirectory in the current directory. This is very
    quick and done every time setup.py is run. For this to work,
    gitlog-to-changelog must be in the PATH and executable."

So basically, it's detecting you're in a git repo and (wrongly) assuming
that it's the upstream repo so it runs through this unnecessary Changelog
generation.

On the other hand, if you create a jessie LXC container and build from there
using "gbp buildpackage", it never sees a .git directory and works just
fine.

Francois

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