[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#848155: verilog-mode: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (cp: cannot stat 'verilog.info': No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 02:57:36PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >Sorry. I don't understand why you don't use "debuild" command....
> 
> 
> Debian arch:all builders don't use debuild, the infrastructure doesn't work that
> way, so you have to fix this bug, or the package will be out of Stretch.

Exactly. The official autobuilders do not build all binaries at once.

Some autobuilders do (the equivalent of) "dpkg-buildpackage -B"
to build the arch-dependent packages and the Arch:all autobuilder
does (the equivalent of) "dpkg-buildpackage -A" to build only the
arch-independent packages.

If any of those fails, the package is considered "not to build
from source" and according to Release Policy, the bug is serious.

We want all packages in stretch to be buildable in case they are
uploaded in source-only form. You can find the details of this
release goal here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830997

I'd love to have filed this bug against verilog-mode earlier but the
package did not exist before.

Thanks.