[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#923013: Bug#923013: xen: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A

[Santiago Vila]

> All of this seems to be related to the dh-exec usage for putting files
> in the xen-utils-common package with a different name. This is the first
> time this package is using dh-exec.
>
> [...]
> 
> Interestingly, 'etc/default/xencommons => /etc/default/xen' does not
> result in a similar error?
> 
> I also found this one, which seems to be related:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831786
> 
> Do you have an idea / suggestion how we can deal with this?

Based on your analysis, maybe applying the patch below.

After all, the "fail-missing" thing is just an extra protection which
helps avoiding mistakes when installing things, but in this case
it seems to be more troublesome than helpful.

--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -307,8 +307,11 @@ override_dh_compress:
 
 # By default, files in debian/tmp which are not handled by anything
 # in rules are ignored.  This makes them into errors.
-override_dh_missing:
-	dh_missing --fail-missing
+#
+# Disabled because of Bug #831786
+#
+# override_dh_missing:
+# 	dh_missing --fail-missing
 
 
 # We are dropping the config file /etc/default/xen which appeared in

Thanks.