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

[Nicholas Guriev]

On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 10:40 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, dpkg does not see these new files because it first
applies an autogenerated patch. At least, .debian.tar.xz archive has no
files I mentioned in the include-binaries list.

  https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/xdg-utils/-/pipelines/235570

On Sun, 2021-02-28 at 10:20 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> 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".

Any ideas how to preserve executable bit of new files in other way?

For now, I see only one option: manually chmod +x either by the
debian/rules patch target or repeated for dh_auto_test and in the
autopkgtest runner.

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