[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#826390: Bug#826390: octave-epstk: FTBFS: Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at /usr/share/octave/debian/dh/octave-pkg-helper line 38.

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 05.06.2016 10:27, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Source: octave-epstk
> Version: 2.4-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: ftbfs
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> octave-epstk fails to build from source in unstable/amd64:
> 
>   [..]
> 
>   	
>   /usr/share/octave/debian/dh/octave-pkg-helper
>   Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at /usr/share/octave/debian/dh/octave-pkg-helper line 38.
>   debian/rules:37: recipe for target 'install/octave-epstk' failed
>   make: *** [install/octave-epstk] Error 2
> 
>   [..]
> 

This is caused by revision 8f5df208093d1cd00b7ff4955e922d770cca6912 in
octave-pkg-dev and because octave-epstk has no DESCRIPTION file.

Before octave-pkg-dev 1.4.0 the missing DESCRIPTION file has been ignored.

Oliver