Debian Bug report logs - #806198
siscone: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (dh_testroot in build-indep)

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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: siscone: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (dh_testroot in build-indep)

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:31:45 +0000

Package: src:siscone
Version: 2.0.6-1.1
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:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
 debian/rules build-indep
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).
debian/rules:63: recipe for target 'doxygen-stamp' failed
make: *** [doxygen-stamp] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In this case, debian/rules tries to ensure that you are root in a
target which is not supposed to be executed as root, and it fails.

The way to fix this is up to you, but my own personal preference,
which I would also recommend, is to get rid of each and every
dh_testdir and dh_testroot call.

After all, dpkg-buildpackage already takes care of being root
(or fakeroot) when required, and of course, it does also take care of
being in the right directory. Both things happen by design, so removing
those checks just make debian/rules shorter and easier to understand
without any loss of functionality. It would also make debian/rules
a little bit closer to the minimalistic style that "dh" allows.

Once this issue with dh_testroot is fixed, please ensure that both
"dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B" work. After that,
the package will be suitable to be uploaded in source-only form if you
wish.

Thanks.

Message #10 received at 806198@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

To: Debian BTS <control@bugs.debian.org>, 806198@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#806198: siscone: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (dh_testroot in build-indep)

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:29:51 +0200 (CEST)

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tags 806198 + patch
thanks

As explained in the previous message, this is the patch I would apply
if this were my package. Now "dpkg-buildpackage -A" works again.

This is of course a lot better than not working at all, but be careful
because now "dpkg-buildpackage -A" creates a siscone-doc-html package
slightly different than the one it's created without using -A:

Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/siscone-doc-html/html/devel/config_8h_source.html

This would be a reproducibility issue for which I don't have a fix
and should probably be reported separately.

In either case, please feel free to close this report after
"dpkg-buildpackage -A" works again.

Thanks.

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Message #17 received at 806198@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

To: 806198@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#806198: siscone: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (dh_testroot in build-indep)

Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:23:50 +0200 (CEST)

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".

There is a patch available for this bug. If you need someone to make
an upload, please ask for a sponsor in debian-mentors.

Thanks.

Message #24 received at 806198-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>

To: 806198-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#806198: fixed in siscone 2.0.6-2

Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:20:22 +0000

Source: siscone
Source-Version: 2.0.6-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
siscone, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 806198@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> (supplier of updated siscone package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:02:51 +0000
Source: siscone
Binary: libsiscone0v5 libsiscone-dev libsiscone-spherical0v5 libsiscone-spherical-dev siscone-examples siscone-doc-html siscone-doc-pdf
Architecture: source
Version: 2.0.6-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Ghislain Antony Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
Description:
 libsiscone-dev - Seedless Infrared Safe Cone jet finder - development files
 libsiscone-spherical-dev - Spherical version of SISCone - development files
 libsiscone-spherical0v5 - Spherical version of SISCone
 libsiscone0v5 - Seedless Infrared Safe Cone jet finder
 siscone-doc-html - Developer's reference manual of SISCone (HTML)
 siscone-doc-pdf - Developer's reference manual of SISCone (PDF)
 siscone-examples - Seedless Infrared Safe Cone jet finder - example files
Closes: 790034 806198
Changes:
 siscone (2.0.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload
 .
   [ Ghislain Antony Vaillant ]
   * Make build reproducible
     - New patch Remove-datetime-from-footer.html.patch
     Thanks to Maria Valentina Marin for the patch (Closes: #790034)
   * Fix arch-indep only build.
     Thanks to Santiago Vila for the fix (Closes: #806198)
   * cme fix dpkg-control:
     - Drop DM-Upload-Allowed field
     - Bump standards version to 3.9.8
     - Use secure VCS URI
     - Wrap and sort
   * cme fix dpkg-copyright:
     - Use HTTPS URI for Format field
     - Remove new line at end of file
   * Upgrade packaging to debhelper 10
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