[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#841558: node-tap: FTBFS: help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/tap.js

[Jérémy Lal]

2016-10-21 15:52 GMT+02:00 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org>:

> Source: node-tap
> Version: 0.7.1-1.1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: stretch sid
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161021 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):
> >  debian/rules build
> > dh build
> >    dh_testdir
> >    dh_update_autotools_config
> >    dh_auto_configure
> >    debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
> > make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> > help2man -N -n "Test-Anything-Protocol module for Node.js" bin/tap.js -o
> "debian/tap.1"
> > help2man: can't get `--help' info from bin/tap.js
>

This means there was an error invoking bin/tap.js (but i can't tell which
error).

Reading
http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/10/21/node-tap_0.7.1-1.1_unstable.log
and comparing to a local (up-to-date) sbuild in sid, this part is somewhat
missing:

dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: applying nodejs_rename.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying use_available_modules.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying sbuild_disable_tests.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying mitigate_test_segv.patch
dpkg-source: info: building node-tap using existing
./node-tap_0.7.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: building node-tap in node-tap_0.7.1-1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building node-tap in node-tap_0.7.1-1.dsc

which would explain the failure.
I'm worried that this build has somehow not applied the quilt patches ?

Maybe the mistake is mine, because i'm not 100% sure
`override_dh_auto_build: debian/tap.1`
guarantees the quilt patch to be applied when debian/tap.1 target is
invoked.
It used to work, tough.

Jérémy
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