[Python-modules-team] Bug#971224: Bug#971203: gap-atlasrep: FTBFS: dpkg-source: error: pathname '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/gaproot/pkg/AtlasRep' points outside source root (to '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>')

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 27/09/20 at 21:41 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:58:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > gpgv: unknown type of key resource 'trustedkeys.kbx'
> > > gpgv: keyblock resource '/tmp/dpkg-verify-sig.DGPbPdCb/trustedkeys.kbx': General error
> > > gpgv: Signature made Sat Apr  4 15:09:48 2020 UTC
> > > gpgv:                using RSA key 42028EA404A2E9D80AC453148F0E7C2B4522E387
> > > gpgv: Can't check signature: No public key
> > > dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./gap-atlasrep_2.1.0-2.dsc
> > > dpkg-source: info: extracting gap-atlasrep in /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>
> > > dpkg-source: info: unpacking gap-atlasrep_2.1.0.orig.tar.bz2
> > > dpkg-source: info: unpacking gap-atlasrep_2.1.0-2.debian.tar.xz
> > > dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
> > > dpkg-source: info: applying doc-makefile
> > > dpkg-source: info: applying default-dir
> > > dpkg-source: error: pathname '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/gaproot/pkg/AtlasRep' points outside source root (to '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>')
> > > E: FAILED [dpkg-source died]
> 
> Hello Lucas,
> 
> I do not see why dpkg-source should cause a FTBFS.
> 
> This is a symlink that is never dereferenced, and /<<PKGBUILDDIR>> is
> not outside of /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>.
> 
> There is nothing that prevents debian/rules to create and uses such a
> symlink either.
> 
> Probably this should be reassigned to dpkg.

Hi,

There's another failure that is similar (ipywidgets, #971224), but that
other one looks more valid (pointing to '/usr/lib/nodejs/html2canvas').
No other package in the archive is affected.

Lucas