[Debichem-devel] Bug#806078: mmass: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:mmass
Version: 5.5.0-4
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_testdir -i
dh_testroot -i
dh_prep  -i
	rm -f debian/mmass.substvars
	rm -f debian/mmass.*.debhelper
	rm -rf debian/mmass/
dh_installdirs -i
	install -d debian/mmass
	install -d debian/mmass/usr/bin debian/mmass/usr/share/mmass debian/mmass/usr/share/mmass/mspy
dh_lintian -i
	install -d debian/mmass/usr/share/lintian/overrides
	install -p -m0644 debian/mmass.lintian-overrides debian/mmass/usr/share/lintian/overrides/mmass
cp debian/start-script /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/mmass/usr/bin/mmass -i
dh_installchangelogs  -i
	install -d debian/mmass/usr/share/doc/mmass
	install -p -m0644 debian/changelog debian/mmass/usr/share/doc/mmass/changelog.Debian
dh_installdocs -i
	cp --reflink=auto -a readme.txt debian/mmass/usr/share/doc/mmass
	chown -R 0:0 debian/mmass/usr/share/doc
	chmod -R go=rX debian/mmass/usr/share/doc
	chmod -R u\+rw debian/mmass/usr/share/doc
	install -p -m0644 debian/README.Debian debian/mmass/usr/share/doc/mmass/README.Debian
	install -p -m0644 debian/copyright debian/mmass/usr/share/doc/mmass/copyright
dh_install -i
	install -d debian/mmass/usr/share/applications
	cp --reflink=auto -a ./debian/mmass.desktop debian/mmass/usr/share/applications/
	install -d debian/mmass/usr/share/pixmaps
	cp --reflink=auto -a debian/tmp/debian/mmass.xpm debian/mmass/usr/share/pixmaps/
cp: cannot stat 'debian/tmp/debian/mmass.xpm': No such file or directory
dh_install: cp --reflink=auto -a debian/tmp/debian/mmass.xpm debian/mmass/usr/share/pixmaps/ returned exit code 1
debian/rules:86: 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.