[Pkg-php-pecl] php-mf2 issue with latest pkg-php-tools

[Mathieu Parent]

Hello Nish,

2016-03-31 1:51 GMT+02:00 Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan at canonical.com>:
> On 30.03.2016 [16:38:29 -0700], Nish Aravamudan wrote:
>> As I slowly rebuild all the php pecl/pear packages in 16.04, I hit the
>> following:
>>
>> dpkg-gencontrol: error: bad line in substvars file
>> debian/php-mf2.substvars at line 2
>> dh_gencontrol.pkg-create-dbgsym: dpkg-gencontrol -pphp-mf2
>> -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/php-mf2.substvars -Pdebian/php-mf2 returned
>> exit code 25
>> debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'binary' failed
>> make: *** [binary] Error 2
>>
>> I took a look in the schroot:
>>
>> # cat debian/php-mf2.substvars
>> phpcomposer:name=mf2/mf2
>> Binary file debian/php-mf2.substvars matches
>> phpcomposer:Debian-require=php-cli, php-common
>> phpcomposer:Debian-require-dev=phpunit (>= 3.7), phpunit (<< 3.8~~)
>> phpcomposer:Debian-suggest=php-barnabywalters-mf-cleaner
>> misc:Depends=
>> misc:Pre-Depends=
>>
>> I think line 2 is from grep? Not sure why it happened, but I see a clone
>> + grep in an strace.
>
> OK debugging it further, seems like an issue with Dh_Lib?
>
> dh_phpcomposer
> Override: require-dev:phpunit/phpunit (>= 3.7, < 3.8~~) ->
> require-dev:__override__/phpunit (>= 3.7, < 3.8~~).
> grep -s -v phpcomposer:name debian/php-mf2.substvars
> grep -s -v phpcomposer:description debian/php-mf2.substvars
> grep -s -v phpcomposer:Debian-require debian/php-mf2.substvars
> grep -s -v phpcomposer:Debian-require-dev debian/php-mf2.substvars
> grep -s -v phpcomposer:Debian-suggest debian/php-mf2.substvars
>
> given the initial results from pkgtools:
>
> # pkgtools -v --sourcedirectory . phpcomposer substvars > debian/php-mf2.substvars
> # cat debian/php-mf2.substvars
> phpcomposer:name=mf2/mf2
> phpcomposer:description=A pure, generic microformats2 parser — makes
> HTML as easy to consume as a${Newline}JSON API
> phpcomposer:Debian-require=php-cli, php-common
> phpcomposer:Debian-require-dev=phpunit (>= 3.7), phpunit (<< 3.8~~)
> phpcomposer:Debian-suggest=php-barnabywalters-mf-cleaner
>
> The above commands result in:
>
> # grep -s -v phpcomposer:name debian/php-mf2.substvars
> Binary file debian/php-mf2.substvars matches

It looks like grep is taking php-mf2.substvars as a binary file. Can
you attach php-mf2.substvars?

It looks like your debhelper version is missing:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm?id=9ca73a0a80fcfc93c1f47e41c61318b038f4e2da


-- 
Mathieu