[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1126642: gimp-help: FTBFS: dh_missing: error: missing files, aborting

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
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> > Yes, the new version added new translations. The package design puts
> > new translations in new binary packages so a fix for this issue is
> > waiting in the binary NEW queue.
> >
> > Alternatively, we could do something like override dh_missing to
> > temporarily ignore the build failure.
>
> Hmm, based on that, I would say there is a missing build-depends
> here. Versioned with >= the package in the NEW queue.

No Build-Depends is needed. It is a single package that only provides
translated help. Each translation is placed into a separate binary
package. New translations were added with this release which means we
either need to add new binary packages to contain those files or
temporarily ignore the additional files that don't fit into any of the
existing binary packages.

I was careless and didn't do a test build first. The build takes hours
because it can't parallel build, for safety
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-help/-/issues/513

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha