[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#980653: node-jquery-textcomplete: FTBFS: cp: not writing through dangling symlink 'debian/node-jquery-textcomplete//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/dist/jquery.textcomplete.js'

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: node-jquery-textcomplete
Version: 1.8.5+dfsg-4
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20210120 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> # Not a real node package
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
>    create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
>    dh_prep
>    dh_auto_install --buildsystem=nodejs
> dh_auto_install: warning: package.json#main file not installed, forcing it (./dist/jquery.textcomplete.js)
> 
> 	mkdir -p /<<BUILDDIR>>/node-jquery-textcomplete-1.8.5\+dfsg/debian/tmp//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/
> 	cp --reflink=auto -a ./package.json /<<BUILDDIR>>/node-jquery-textcomplete-1.8.5\+dfsg/debian/tmp//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete//
> 	mkdir -p /<<BUILDDIR>>/node-jquery-textcomplete-1.8.5\+dfsg/debian/tmp//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/dist
> 	cp --reflink=auto -a ./dist/jquery.textcomplete.js /<<BUILDDIR>>/node-jquery-textcomplete-1.8.5\+dfsg/debian/tmp//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/dist/
> Set ${nodejs:Version} to 12.20.1~dfsg
> Linking /usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/dist/jquery.textcomplete.js to /usr/share/javascript/jquery-textcomplete/jquery.textcomplete.js
>    dh_install
> cp: not writing through dangling symlink 'debian/node-jquery-textcomplete//usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete/dist/jquery.textcomplete.js'
> dh_install: error: cp --reflink=auto -a debian/tmp/usr/share/nodejs/jquery-textcomplete debian/node-jquery-textcomplete//usr/share/nodejs/ returned exit code 1
> make: *** [debian/rules:8: binary] Error 25

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2021/01/20/node-jquery-textcomplete_1.8.5+dfsg-4_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!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please marking it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with me
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

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.