[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#854474: alsa-lib: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:alsa-lib
Version: 1.1.3-4
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-indep
dh build-indep
   dh_testdir -i
   dh_update_autotools_config -i
   dh_autoreconf -i
configure.ac:39: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2672: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2689: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:639: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2042: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2063: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
m4/attributes.m4:87: CC_CHECK_LDFLAGS is expanded from...
m4/attributes.m4:104: CC_NOUNDEFINED is expanded from...

[... snipped ...]

Making check in utils
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/utils'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/utils'
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'check-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh binary-indep
   dh_testroot -i
   dh_prep -i
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_install-indep
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
/usr/bin/make -C doc install
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
Making install in pictures
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc/pictures'
make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc/pictures'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc/pictures'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc/pictures'
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/doc'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
   debian/rules override_dh_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_install --list-missing
dh_install: Cannot find (any matches for) "usr/share/alsa" (tried in "." and "debian/tmp")
dh_install: libasound2-data missing files: usr/share/alsa
Can't stat debian/tmp: No such file or directory
 at /usr/bin/dh_install line 288.
dh_install: missing files, aborting
debian/rules:32: recipe for target 'override_dh_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:8: 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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To reproduce, please try building with "dpkg-buildpackage -A".

Also, please consider uploading in source-only form (dpkg-buildpackage -S),
so that this kind of bugs never propagate to testing.

Thanks.