[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#852850: hilive: FTBFS (dh_auto_configure fails)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:hilive
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
but it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-arch
dh build-arch
   dh_testdir -a
   dh_update_autotools_config -a
   dh_autoreconf -a
   dh_auto_configure -a
	cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 6.2.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 6.2.1
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features

[... snipped ...]

    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_delegating_constructors
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    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_digit_separators
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    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_explicit_conversions
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_extended_friend_declarations
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_extern_templates
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_final
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_func_identifier
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_generalized_initializers
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_generic_lambdas
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_inheriting_constructors
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_inline_namespaces
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_lambdas
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_lambda_init_captures
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_local_type_template_args
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_long_long_type
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_noexcept
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_nonstatic_member_init
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_nullptr
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_override
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_range_for
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_raw_string_literals
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_reference_qualified_functions
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_relaxed_constexpr
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_return_type_deduction
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_right_angle_brackets
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_rvalue_references
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_sizeof_member
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_static_assert
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_strong_enums
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:1cxx_template_template_parameters
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_thread_local
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_trailing_return_types
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_unicode_literals
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_uniform_initialization
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_unrestricted_unions
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_user_literals
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variable_templates
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variadic_macros
    Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variadic_templates
dh_auto_configure: cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var returned exit code 1
debian/rules:10: recipe for target 'build-arch' failed
make: *** [build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch gave error exit status 2
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A similar failure happens here:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/hilive.html

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects,
so that this is still visible in the page for this package.

Thanks.