Bug#733431: python-chameleon: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source

[David Suárez]

Source: python-chameleon
Version: 2.6.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131226 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh --with pydeb --with python2 --buildsystem=python_distutils clean
>    dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=python_distutils
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=python_distutils
> Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz
> Extracting in /tmp/tmpqN3Mj1
> Now working in /tmp/tmpqN3Mj1/distribute-0.6.14
> Building a Distribute egg in /«PKGBUILDDIR»
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg
> running clean
> 'build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
> 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' does not exist -- can't clean it
> 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
>    dh_clean -O--buildsystem=python_distutils
>  dpkg-source -b python-chameleon-2.6.1
> dpkg-source: info: using options from python-chameleon-2.6.1/debian/source/options: --extend-diff-ignore=\.egg-info
> dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building python-chameleon using existing ./python-chameleon_2.6.1.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add distribute-0.6.14-py2.7.egg in debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz in debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b python-chameleon-2.6.1 gave error exit status 2
> ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> Build finished at 20131227-0320

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/12/26/python-chameleon_2.6.1-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.