[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#912272: staden-io-lib FTBFS: dh_installdocs: Cannot find (any matches for) "README" (tried in .)

[Niels Thykier]

Helmut Grohne:
> Source: staden-io-lib
> Version: 1.14.9-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> 
> staden-io-lib fails to build from source in unstable. This smells a bit
> like a debhelper regression, but I'm not sure actually. In any case, it
> fails to build reliably.
> 
> |    dh_installdocs -O--no-parallel
> | dh_installdocs: Cannot find (any matches for) "README" (tried in .)
> | 
> | make: *** [debian/rules:11: binary] Error 2
> | dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
> 
> Helmut
> 

That is a real issue in staden-io-lib.  The
debian/staden-io-lib-utils.docs file lists "README" but there is no
"README" in the source root.

Note that there was a regression in debhelper's reporting of such issues
which was fixed in debhelper/11.3.5 (#902355).  This can explain why
this issue was not noticed until now.

Thanks,
~Niels