Bug#724197: lmemory: FTBFS: dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source

[David Suárez]

Source: lmemory
Version: 0.6c-6
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130922 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[3]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
>  rm -f lmemory
> rm -rf .libs _libs
> rm -f *.o
> rm -f *.lo
> rm -f *.tab.c
> test -z "" || rm -f 
> test . = "." || test -z "" || rm -f 
> rm -f config.h stamp-h1
> rm -f libtool config.lt
> rm -f TAGS ID GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS GPATH tags
> rm -f cscope.out cscope.in.out cscope.po.out cscope.files
> This command is intended for maintainers to use
> it deletes files that may require special tools to rebuild.
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> rm -f config.status config.cache config.log configure.lineno config.status.lineno
> rm -rf ./autom4te.cache
> rm -rf ./.deps
> rm -f Makefile
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> rm -rf configure config.h.in ltmain.sh mkinstalldirs config.guess config.sub aclocal.m4 depcomp install-sh Makefile.in missing INSTALL COPYING
> dh_auto_clean
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
>    dh_clean
>  dpkg-source -b lmemory-0.6c
> dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building lmemory using existing ./lmemory_0.6c.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to lmemory-0.6c/compile:
> dpkg-source: error:   new version is symlink to /usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
> dpkg-source: error:   old version is nonexistent
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file Makefile
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file mkinstalldirs
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file missing
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file ltmain.sh
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file install-sh
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file configure
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file config.sub
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file config.h.in
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file config.guess
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file aclocal.m4
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file INSTALL
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file COPYING
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file Makefile.in
> dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b lmemory-0.6c gave error exit status 2
> ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> Build finished at 20130921-1336

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/09/22/lmemory_0.6c-6_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.