Debian Bug report logs - #805948
libsyncml: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (no binary artifacts)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>

To: Debian BTS <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libsyncml: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (no binary artifacts)

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:17:47 +0000

Package: src:libsyncml
Version: 0.5.4-2.2
User: sanvila@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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[...]
 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_prep
dh_installdirs
/usr/bin/make -C /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp

[ ... snipped ... ]

-- Installing: /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/bin/syncml-ds-tool
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build'
dh_install --sourcedir=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp
 dpkg-genchanges -A >../libsyncml_0.5.4-2.2_all.changes
dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2
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This usually happens because there is a binary-indep target in debian/rules
which is either empty or does not do anything useful.

If all the arch-independent packages are dummy transitional packages released with jessie,
the easy fix is to drop them now. If not, debian/rules should be modified so that the
binary-indep target generates the architecture independent packages (and only those).

After checking that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B" work
properly, this package will be suitable to be uploaded in source-only form if you wish
(I recommend that you try it).

Thanks.

Message #10 received at 805948@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>

To: 805948@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libsyncml: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (no binary artifacts)

Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:08:34 +0000

Greetings.

I have the ok from the Release Managers to consider this issue as RC
for stretch. I'm going to wait at least one week before raising
this to "serious".

If you need help to fix this bug, please tag it as "help".

Thanks.

Message #17 received at 805948-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 501850-done@bugs.debian.org,615564-done@bugs.debian.org,622158-done@bugs.debian.org,805948-done@bugs.debian.org,811300-done@bugs.debian.org,822044-done@bugs.debian.org,852498-done@bugs.debian.org,

Cc: libsyncml@packages.debian.org, libsyncml@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#854755: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:15:21 +0000

Version: 0.5.4-2.3+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package libsyncml has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/854755

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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