[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#806112: staden-io-lib: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:staden-io-lib
Version: 1.14.6-1
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 binary-indep --with autoreconf
   dh_testroot -i
   dh_prep -i
   dh_auto_install -i
	make -j1 install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
Making install in io_lib
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/io_lib'
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/io_lib'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
 /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libstaden-read.la '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libstaden-read.so.11.0.5 /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstaden-read.so.11.0.5
libtool: install: (cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu && { ln -s -f libstaden-read.so.11.0.5 libstaden-read.so.11 || { rm -f libstaden-read.so.11 && ln -s libstaden-read.so.11.0.5 libstaden-read.so.11; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu && { ln -s -f libstaden-read.so.11.0.5 libstaden-read.so || { rm -f libstaden-read.so && ln -s libstaden-read.so.11.0.5 libstaden-read.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libstaden-read.lai /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstaden-read.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libstaden-read.a /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstaden-read.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstaden-read.a
libtool: install: ranlib /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstaden-read.a
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/io_lib'

[... snipped ...]

make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
   debian/rules override_dh_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_install
mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libstaden-read-dev/usr/bin
mv /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/staden-io-lib-utils/usr/bin/io_lib-config /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libstaden-read-dev/usr/bin
mv: cannot stat '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/staden-io-lib-utils/usr/bin/io_lib-config': No such file or directory
debian/rules:14: recipe for target 'override_dh_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:11: 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.