[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#440069: bzr-builddeb: can't do merge packages with dh-make-pear

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Package: bzr-builddeb
Version: 0.19
Severity: important

I would like to do a merge package with the results of dh-make-pear,
but this seems impossible.  The reason appears to be the package.xml
file in the .orig.tgz from the PEAR archive are not in a
sub-directory.

Here is the layout of the file tgz:

 $ tar tzf ../tarballs/php-mdb2_2.4.1.orig.tar.gz
 package.xml
 MDB2-2.4.1/docs/examples/example.php
 MDB2-2.4.1/docs/examples/example_php5.php
 MDB2-2.4.1/docs/examples/metapear_test_db.schema
 . . .

Here's what happens:

 $ bzr bd
 Running in merge mode
 Building branch from revision mah at everybody.org-20070829141327-7p542fskxjzwknky
 Preparing the build area: ../build-area
 Exporting to ../build-area/php-mdb2-2.4.1 in merge mode
 Looking for ../tarballs/php-mdb2_2.4.1.orig.tar.gz to use as upstream source
 bzr: ERROR: [Errno 17] File exists: '../build-area/php-mdb2-2.4.1'
 $ ls ../build-area/php-mdb2-2.4.1/
 package.xml
 $ ls ../build-area/
 builddeb-c_P_cV php-mdb2-2.4.1
 $ ls ../build-area/builddeb-c_P_cV/
 MDB2-2.4.1

Willing to reproduce using Debian Unstable if that would help.  (I
just don't have that available ATM.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy-backports'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-10-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bzr-builddeb depends on:
ii  bzr                       0.18-1         Bazaar, the next-generation distri
ii  bzrtools                  0.18.0-1       Collection of tools for bzr
ii  devscripts                2.10.7ubuntu1  Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  dpkg-dev                  1.14.5ubuntu10 package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                  1.7.1ubuntu1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  patchutils                0.2.31-4       Utilities to work with patches
ii  python                    2.5.1-1ubuntu2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central            0.5.14ubuntu1  register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-debian             0.1.5          python modules to work with Debian

bzr-builddeb recommends no packages.

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