Bug#981422: xdg-utils: autopkgtest failure: make: dh: No such file or directory

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:22:25 +0300 Nicholas Guriev <guriev-ns at ya.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 21:54 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > You recently added an autopkgtest to your package xdg-utils, great.
> > However, it fails. Currently this failure is blocking the migration to
> > testing [1]. Can you please investigate the situation and fix it?
> 
> There are several ways to fix the failure.
> 
> 1. Replace `debian/rules patch` line in a test script with `chmod +x
> autotests/tty{on,off}`.
> 
> --- a/debian/tests/entry
> +++ b/debian/tests/entry
> @@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ fi
>  BASH_XTRACEFD=1
>  set -x
> ·
> -debian/rules patch
>  ./configure
> +chmod +x autotests/tty{on,off}
>  make autotest SHELL="${1:-/bin/sh}"
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/xdg-utils/-/commit/9928933504932f19fb39a0f671cdc7be78aada29
> 
> 2. Put the "patch" target back as it was in -3 revision, and fix arch-
> independent build.
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/4/diffs?commit_id=0617f9284ae4d79b51c4ad4bc7d781e93561cb23
> 
> I still prefer the later option with the "patch" target. Because that
> chmod fixes flaws of quilt and dpkg and this solutions is more
> universal. I hope someone will choose to upload another one-liner fix.

Please drop patching from the test entirely. autopkgtests are supposed
to _start_ running against a fully patched source tree. autopkgtest(1)
does this automatically.

I understand that this might be convenient when working on the package,
but please automate it in a way that it's not also done when running the
autopkgtest "for real".
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