[Debian-med-packaging] status of meme Debian packaging

[Faheem Mitha]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> I got this error with 4.9. It might be an upstream bug. Any idea how to fix 
> it, or should I just use 4.8?

> test -z "/usr/doc/examples" || /bin/mkdir -p 
> "/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp/usr/doc/examples"
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 At.fa sample-kabat.seq sample-glam2-aln.dna 
> sample-glam2-aln.protein sample-dna-Klf1.fa sample-dna-motif.meme-io 
> sample-protein-motif.meme-io 
> '/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp/usr/doc/examples'
> make  install-data-hook
> make[7]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
> tar xzvf centrimo_example_output_files.tgz -C /usr/doc/examples
> tar: /usr/doc/examples: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> make[7]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2
> make[7]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
> make[6]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
> make[5]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
> make[4]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
> make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc'
> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0'
> dh_auto_install: make -j1 install 
> DESTDIR=/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp MEME_DB=/var/lib/meme 
> returned exit code 2
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 29
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0'
> make: *** [binary] Error 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1307:
> couldn't exec fakeroot debian/rules: Bad file descriptor

One odd thing is that the patches are not getting applied when I call

debuild binary

Any idea why not? And when I try to apply them manually with

quilt push -a

one of them (at least) fails.

I'll investigate further tomorrow.

                   Regards, Faheem