Bug#806127: zope2.13: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:zope2.13
Version: 2.13.22-1
User: sanvila at debian.org
Usertags: binary-indep
Severity: important

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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[...]
 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh --with python2 binary-indep 
   dh_testroot -i
   debian/rules override_dh_prep
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
for f in debian/*.in; do \
	generated=`echo $f | sed 's,.in$,,;s,ZVER,2.13,'`; \
	sed -e 's, at ZVER@,2.13,g' -e 's, at PYVER@,2.7,g' $f > $generated.tmp; \
	if cmp --quiet "$generated" "$generated.tmp"; then \
		rm -f $generated.tmp; \
	else \
		mv -f  $generated.tmp $generated; \
	fi; \
done
dh_prep --
dh_installzopeinstance -pzope2.13-sandbox sandbox
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make install PYTHON=python2.7 DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/zope2.13
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./debian/build-scripts/install.py", line 90, in <module>
    main()
  File "./debian/build-scripts/install.py", line 83, in main
    shutil.copy2(src, dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/zope2.13/usr/lib/zope2.13/bin/runzeo'
Makefile:43: recipe for target 'install' failed
make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:70: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:38: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep gave error exit status 2
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Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to
this one, but I can give some general hints:

* If all the arch-independent packages are dummy transitional packages
released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them now.
 
* If not, debian/rules should be modified so that the binary-indep
target works in all cases, even when binary-arch is not used (this is
what the "Architecture: all" autobuilder does). For that:
    
* If you are using debhelper, you might want to use options -a and -i
for dh_* commands so that they do not act on packages they do not
have to act.

* Also, if you are using dh, the (independently) optional targets
override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep (for several values
of "foo") may be useful to write a debian/rules which behaves exactly
as desired.


After checking that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B"
work properly, this package will be suitable to be uploaded in
source-only form if you wish (you might want to try it).

Thanks.