Bug#860637: mkosi: FTBFS on i386: help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./mkosi

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 19/04/17 at 14:48 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:41:09AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> [...]
> > During a rebuild of all packages in stretch (in a stretch chroot, not a
> > sid chroot), your package failed to build on i386.
> > 
> > Relevant part (hopefully):
> > >  debian/rules build
> > > help2man --name "Create legacy-free OS images" \
> [...]
> > > help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./mkosi
> > > Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
> > > debian/rules:17: recipe for target 'debian/mkosi.1' failed
> > > make: *** [debian/mkosi.1] Error 1
> [...]
> 
> I've tried to reproduce this but failed. I'm using an amd64 stretch
> install as a base, with a newly debootstrapped --arch=i386
> --variant=minbase chroot where I installed mkosi build-deps, fetched
> mkosi sources and ran debian/rules binary.
> I've also tried to manually check return codes (0) and mkosi --help
> output (stdout). Nothing peculiar noticed.
> 
> Suggestions on how I can reproduce the problem welcome.

That's probably a good hint:
(testing-i386-sbuild)root at ip-172-31-10-37:/tmp/mkosi-1# ./mkosi --help
Don't known the i686 architecture.

Lucas