[Pkg-sympa-devel] Problems with building Sympa packages

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/27/2010 11:16 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> On 10/27/2010 10:28 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:02:12AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>>> I'm trying to build Sympa 6.1.1~dfsg-2 packages to fix the recent RC
>>> bug. The build with git-buildpackage fails with the following message:
>> [snip]
>>> dpkg-source: error: aborting due to --abort-on-upstream-changes
>>
>> The clean target needs to clean perfectly when building on top of git.
>>
>> Perhaps you did not cleanup maunally after some unusual work (e.g. an
>> interrupted or failed test build)?
>>
>> Or perhaps our packaging do not generally cleanup properly at the moment?
>>
>> You can try be lazy and build with the --git-export option, but really
>> the proper thing to do is figure out why it isn't clean, and fix it so
>> that it is.
>>
>> Perhaps try gbp-clone --pristine-tar from a fresh dir - if that works
>> (also with repeated builds cleaning in-between - then it is simply your
>> own git clone that got messed up due to some custom work of yours.
>>
>
> No, there seems to be something flaky with the cleanups.
>
> gbp-clone --pristine-tar ssh://racke@git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sympa
> cd sympa
> git buildpackage
>
> Result:
> dpkg-source -i -I --after-build sympa
> dpkg-source: info: using options from sympa/debian/source/local-options:
> --unapply-patches --abort-on-upstream-changes
> dpkg-source: info: unapplying 2006_force_removal_po_stamp_files.patch
> dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -R -t -N -p1 -u -V never -g0 -E
> --no-backup-if-mismatch <
> sympa/debian/patches/2006_force_removal_po_stamp_files.patch gave error
> exit status 1
> The next patch, when reversed, would create the file po-wwsympa/stamp-po,
> which already exists! Skipping patch.
> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
> The next patch, when reversed, would create the file po/stamp-po,
> which already exists! Skipping patch.
> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -i -I --after-build sympa gave
> error exit status 1
> debuild: fatal error at line 1327:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -i -I failed
> debuild -i -I returned 29
> Couldn't run 'debuild -i -I'
>

BTW, stamp files don't really belong into a source code distribution.

Regards
	Racke


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