[Python-apps-team] Bug#807021: mercurial: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Julien Cristau]

Control: tag -1 confirmed patch

On Fri, Dec  4, 2015 at 10:19:54 +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Package: src:mercurial
> Version: 3.6.1-1
> 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:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>    debian/rules override_dh_python2
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> dh_python2
> I: dh_python2 tools:100: replacing shebang in debian/mercurial-common/usr/bin/hg-ssh
> find debian/mercurial/usr/share -type d -empty -delete
> find: `debian/mercurial/usr/share': No such file or directory
> debian/rules:87: recipe for target 'override_dh_python2' failed

Here's a patch to fix this:

Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules	(revision 12868)
+++ debian/rules	(working copy)
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@
 
 override_dh_python2:
 	dh_python2
-	find debian/mercurial/usr/share -type d -empty -delete
+	if test -d debian/mercurial; then \
+		find debian/mercurial/usr/share -type d -empty -delete ; \
+	fi
 
 override_dh_auto_clean: mercurial/__version__.py
 	cp -a mercurial/__version__.py mercurial/__version__.py.save

Cheers,
Julien
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Julien Cristau          <julien.cristau at logilab.fr>
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