[Android-tools-devel] Bug#898705: android-platform-libcore FTBFS with debhelper v11

[Saif Abdul Cassim]

Source: android-platform-libcore
Version: android-platform-libcore 7.0.0+r33-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to update this package to android 8.1.0-r23 but it failed to build from source with debhelper v11. I had previously installed debhelper v11 from outside the software channel
(my system is in debian stretch) along with dh-autoreconf_17_all for some other package. so when I tried to build from the source package it failed giving me the following error.


dh_auto_clean
	"find . -wholename .*build/tmp | xargs echo | sed -e 's^build/tmp^build^g' | xargs rm -Rf"
Can't exec "find . -wholename .*build/tmp | xargs echo | sed -e 's^build/tmp^build^g' | xargs rm -Rf": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 356.
dh_auto_clean: "find . -wholename .*build/tmp | xargs echo | sed -e 's^build/tmp^build^g' | xargs rm -Rf" failed to execute: No child processes
dh_auto_clean: "find . -wholename .*build/tmp | xargs echo | sed -e 's^build/tmp^build^g' | xargs rm -Rf" returned exit code 10

I think it can't find /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm

so I searched for the file using apt-file and found its in dehelper and reinstall debhelper 10 from software channel and it built successfully.
contact me at saif.15 at cse.mrt.ac.lk if you need. cheers :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)