Bug#825276: openjfx: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (dh_install: Cannot find "build/javadoc/*")

Santiago Vila sanvila at unex.es
Thu Jul 14 14:46:57 UTC 2016


On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> > Or even better: Consider a source package which only builds "Arch: all"
> > binary packages. Suppose your package has a missing build-depends but
> > it builds ok in your computer because you have installed the
> > build-dependency in your chroot. Since you provide all the "Arch: all"
> > packages, would it be ok not to consider the FTBFS in an official
> > autobuilder as serious?
> 
> I agree but that's a different case, this is just a plain old FTBFS.
> This issue is about "dpkg-buildpackage" working but not
> "dpkg-buildpackage -A".

Not exactly. This issue is really about packages failing in the "Arch: all"
autobuilder, or, in other words, "packages which may not be uploaded
in source-only form". This includes not only source packages
generating both "Arch: all" and "Arch: any" packages (which I usually test)
but also source packages which only generate "Arch: all" packages
(which I don't test because people from reproducible builds already
test them).

Following your reasoning, this plain old FTBFS would not have to
be serious at all, because "since the maintainer already provides
the .deb packages, there is nothing to worry about".

See what I mean? The same logic you want to apply to some packages
would make bugs which we already consider serious not to be serious
anymore.

Thanks.



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