[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#832865: Bug#832865: telepathy-python: FTBFS: will not overwrite just-created '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/python-telepathy//usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/telepathy/_generated/errors.py' with '_generated/errors.py'

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 13/12/16 23:15, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
>> But in either case, look at the error message. It's essentially like
>> this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644
>>   some-files _generated/errors.py some-files _generated/errors.py some-files directory
>>
>> This fails because _generated/errors.py is listed twice.
> 
> And in fact the patch below shows that $(BUILT_SOURCES), which is what
> the install target tries to install, contains _generated/errors.py twice.
> 
> To test it, apply the patch, build the package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
> and then try:
> 
> make -C src show_BUILT_SOURCES | grep --color _generated/errors.py
> 
> You should see _generated/errors.py twice, one because it's listed
> explicitly and another one as the result of the patsubst in spec_files.
> 
> The question, then, is not why it fails, but why it does not always fail.
> 
> Please try to explain how the current Makefile tries to avoid the
> failure. I guess it relies on  wildcard $(spec_dir)/*.xml  having
> a particular order, but the order of such wildcard expansion
> depends on filesystem ordering, so it may be anything.
> 
> So I really think there is a Makefile bug here, even if can't
> explain it in full. please forward the bug upstream.

This module is dead upstream. It is replaced by gir1.2-telepathy-glib-*. It
won't see any upstream fixes at all.

I want to get it removed from Debian, but there are a few rdeps. I'll probably
do that anyway once stretch is released.

Cheers,
Emilio