[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1044983: fonts-freefont: Fails to build source after successful build

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: fonts-freefont
Version: 20211204+svn4273-2
Severity: minor
Tags: trixie sid ftbfs
User: lucas at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-sab-20230813 ftbfs-source-after-build
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-doublebuild

Hi,

This package fails to build a source package after a successful build
(dpkg-buildpackage ; dpkg-buildpackage -S).

This is probably a clear violation of Debian Policy section 4.9 (clean target),
but this is filed as severity:minor for now, because a discussion on
debian-devel showed that we might want to revisit the requirement of a working
'clean' target.

More information about this class of issues, included common problems and
solutions, is available at
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS/SourceAfterBuild

Relevant part of the build log:
> cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>> && runuser -u user42 -- dpkg-buildpackage --sanitize-env -us -uc -rfakeroot -S
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package fonts-freefont
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 20211204+svn4273-2
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org>
>  dpkg-source --before-build .
>  debian/rules clean
> dh clean
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> rm -f -fr TTF-stripped udeb-sfd
> dh_auto_clean
> 	make -j8 distclean
> make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> rm -rf /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/freefont-20230812 
> rm -f   freefont-src-20230812.tar.gz freefont-ttf-20230812.zip.sig freefont-ttf-20230812.tar.gz.sig freefont-src-20230812.tar.gz.sig
> ( cd sfd; make distclean )
> make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/sfd'
> rm -f FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf FreeMonoBold.ttf FreeMonoOblique.ttf FreeMono.ttf FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf FreeSansBold.ttf FreeSansOblique.ttf FreeSans.ttf FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf FreeSerifBold.ttf FreeSerifItalic.ttf FreeSerif.ttf FreeMonoBoldOblique.otf FreeMonoBold.otf FreeMonoOblique.otf FreeMono.otf FreeSansBoldOblique.otf FreeSansBold.otf FreeSansOblique.otf FreeSans.otf FreeSerifBoldItalic.otf FreeSerifBold.otf FreeSerifItalic.otf FreeSerif.otf FreeMonoBoldOblique.woff FreeMonoBold.woff FreeMonoOblique.woff FreeMono.woff FreeSansBoldOblique.woff FreeSansBold.woff FreeSansOblique.woff FreeSans.woff FreeSerifBoldItalic.woff FreeSerifBold.woff FreeSerifItalic.woff FreeSerif.woff build.log
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/sfd'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
>    dh_clean
>  dpkg-source -b .
> dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building fonts-freefont using existing ./fonts-freefont_20211204+svn4273.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to tools/generate/__pycache__/buildutils.cpython-311.pyc: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add tools/generate/__pycache__/buildutils.cpython-311.pyc in debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit status 1
> 
> E: Command 'cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>> && runuser -u user42 -- dpkg-buildpackage --sanitize-env -us -uc -rfakeroot -S' failed to run.


The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/08/13/fonts-freefont_20211204+svn4273-2_unstable.log

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.