[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#843712: Closing since this bug was possibly caused by broken Build-Depends

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Santiago,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:10:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:37:46PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > I do nit think that the issue can be explained by a missing
> > Build-Depends - otherwise it would fail in pbuilder as well IMHO.
> 
> Not necessarily. sbuild and pbuilder are only "equivalent" if the chroots
> they use have the same packages installed.
> 
> If you insist on using pbuilder, I would try to reduce the number of
> packages installed in the chroot as much as possible, there is no
> canonical chroot set in stone to be used by pbuilder, it uses whatever
> it was created by debootstrap when it was invoked for the first time.
> If you upgraded the chroot in the meantime, it may easily have some
> non-essential packages that may (and should) be removed.

OK, sounds convincing.
 
> But I would try using sbuild anyway, because that's the program used
> by official buildds. Setting up sbuild is quite straightforward really.

Ahem, I tried and ended up with

Unpacking sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy (0.invalid.0) ...
Setting up sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy (0.invalid.0) ...
W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Check architectures                                                          |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

E: dsc: amd64 not in arch list or does not match any arch wildcards: all -- skipping
du: cannot access '/<<BUILDDIR>>/biojava4-live-4.1.0+dfsg': No such file or directory
E: read_command failed to execute du
E: Cannot determine space needed for /<<BUILDDIR>>/biojava4-live-4.1.0+dfsg (du failed)

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Cleanup                                                                      |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Purging /<<BUILDDIR>>
Not cleaning session: cloned chroot in use
E: dsc: amd64 not in arch list or does not match any arch wildcards: all -- skipping


Sorry, I *really* can not spent any more time on this issue.  I've spent
today way more than I should have done actually.


> If it still does not fail with sbuild in your machine, we can diff a
> failed build log and a successful build log to see how they differ.

I perfectly agree to your strategy - but not for today. 

> Disabling the test would be the right thing to do but only as a last
> resort.

For the moment I'll go with this last resort (admitting that I'm not
really happy about it but it seems nobody else is able to care better).

Again thanks a lot for your hints and patience

       Andreas.

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