[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1036174: Bug#1036174: FTBFS with nocheck option

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: tags -1 + ftbfs confirmed
Control: severity -1 important

Hi Sven,

Sven Mueller, on 2023-05-16:
> When doing a build via pbuilder/sbuild and setting the `nocheck`
> profile, the build-dependency on hevea is disabled (!nocheck).
> However, it is still executed. Log excerpt below:
> 
> cd Doc && make
> make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/Doc'
> sed "s/\@VERSION\@/1.80/g" version.in > version.sh
> chmod +x version.sh
> hevea -exec ./version.sh -exec xxdate.exe -fix Tutorial.tex
> make[2]: hevea: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:18: Tutorial.html] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/Doc'
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:65: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make: *** [debian/rules:42: binary-indep] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-indep subprocess
> returned exit status 2

Thank you for your report, I confirm the behavior on my end.

> - I guess it was meant to be "!nodoc" instead of "!nocheck"?

Incidently, I noticed that nodoc builds are also failing with:

	# dh_installdocs seems to refuse copying zero length files (for instance Tests/Blast/tab_2226_tblastn_002.txt) but these are needed for the tests as well
	cp -a debian/tmp_tests/* /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/python-biopython-doc/usr/share/doc/python-biopython-doc/
	cp: cannot stat 'debian/tmp_tests/*': No such file or directory

This is probably just one $(filter nodoc, …) away from being
solved hopefully.


Thinking out loud, I'm not sure about the severity of the bug.
FTBFS bugs are normally Release Critical, but support for the
build options is just recommended, so perhaps the present
situation is fair enough.  I raised the severity to "important"
in doubt, but feel free to adjust accordingly.

Have a nice day,  :)
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