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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 30/01/2021 22:22, Nicholas Guriev 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.

You can ship the files directly in the debian.tar by adding them to 
debian/source/include-binaries, and that way you don't need to call chmod as 
their mode will be preserved. That would probably help with this autopkgtest 
patch issue.

Cheers,
Emilio