Bug#806875: vim: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:vim
Version: 2:7.4.826-1
User: sanvila at debian.org
Usertags: binary-indep
Severity: important

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-indep
dh_testdir
dh_prep
/usr/bin/make -C runtime/doc html
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/runtime/doc'
Makefile:14: ../../src/auto/config.mk: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target '../../src/auto/config.mk'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/runtime/doc'
debian/rules:235: recipe for target 'build-stamp-indep' failed
make: *** [build-stamp-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
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Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to
this one. The common hints are:

* If the only architecture-independent packages are dummy transitional
ones and they were released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them
now.

* When using "dh", it is allowed to use (independently)
optional targets override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep
(for several values of "foo").


Once that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B" work
properly, the package would be suitable to be uploaded in source-only
form if you wish.

Thanks.