Bug#383394: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#383394: pbuilder: Fails to build if source tree has files with zero size

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi,

On 2006-08-17 16:15:15, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> Please give more specific information.
> 
Take any upstream tar-ball and debianize it with dh_make.

Apply autotools to the package.
In the process of running autoreconf -i you will have a number of  
required files created with zero contents: NEWS, ChangeLog, AUTHORS etc.
Run dpkg-buildpackage and you will get a newly crated deb-package  
without warnings or errors - not lintian/linda clean off-course.
Now run pdebuild and you will see error messages like the following:

dh_installdocs -a
cp: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory
dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package

-- 
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Michael Rasmussen

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