[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#826390: 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.

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: reassign -1 octave-pkg-dev 1.4.0
Control: tags -1 + confirmed

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-06-05 12:47]:

> 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.

I confirm the diagnosis above.  I am hereby reassigning this bug report 
to octave-pkg-dev.  A fix is underway.

Thanks,

Rafael