[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#701686: bowtie2: FTBFS[!linux]: help2man: can't get `--help' info

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

just as a hint how to work around help2man problems: I recently commited into
meme packaging some hackish wrapper:

   svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/meme/trunk/debian/help2man-wrapper

(see rules file for its usage.)  In principle it would be better to
rather fix help2man but for the moment this script might help (provided
that the `--no-discard-stderr' option does not.)

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:34:03PM -0800, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Package: src:bowtie2
> Version: 2.0.6-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid wheezy
> User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: kfreebsd
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Your package failed to build on the kfreebsd-* buildds:
> 
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6'
> mkdir -p /build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6/debian/bowtie2/usr/share/man/man1/
> help2man --name="wrapper for bowtie2-align" --no-info \
> 		/build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6/bowtie2 > /build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6/debian/bowtie2/usr/share/man/man1/bowtie2.1
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from /build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6/bowtie2
> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd-bowtie2_2.0.6-1-kfreebsd-amd64-TCHdXD/bowtie2-2.0.6'
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
> 
> Full build log at
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=bowtie2&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=2.0.6-1&stamp=1361653538
> 
> Regards
> 
>     Christoph
> 
> If you have further questions please mail debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> 
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