Debian Bug report logs - #831955
gpsim-doc: FTBFS with dpkg-buildpackage -A: dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute

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

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gpsim-doc: FTBFS with dpkg-buildpackage -A: dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:06:30 +0200

Source: gpsim-doc
Version: 0.22.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160720 qa-ftbfs qa-indep
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.  This rebuild was done by building only the architecture-independent
packages.  At the same time, a normal build succeeded, which points the
problem specifically to build-indep/binary-indep targets.


The specific error below usually happens 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 file this bug as severity: important, but Santiago Vila, who led this
effort (kudos to him), got approval from the release team to consider those
bugs RC for stretch. The severity will be increased to 'serious' shortly.
See #830997 for details.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_prep
> 	rm -f debian/gpsim-doc.substvars
> 	rm -f debian/gpsim-doc.*.debhelper
> 	rm -rf debian/gpsim-doc/
> dh_installdirs
> 	install -d debian/gpsim-doc
> 	install -d debian/gpsim-doc/usr/share/doc/gpsim-doc
>  dpkg-genchanges --build=all >../gpsim-doc_0.22.0-2_all.changes
> dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2016/07/20/gpsim-doc_0.22.0-2_unstable_archallonly.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.

Message #10 received at 831955@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

To: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>

Cc: 831955@bugs.debian.org, Debian BTS <control@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: gpsim-doc: FTBFS with dpkg-buildpackage -A: dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:54:00 +0200 (CEST)

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 831955 + patch
thanks

This happens because debian/rules has its binary-arch and binary-indep
targets swapped.

The following trivial (but untested) patch might fix it.

Note: The patch also fixes the non-standard binary-arch-indep target name.

Thanks.

[gpsim-doc.patch.txt (text/plain, ATTACHMENT)]

--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -28,14 +28,12 @@ install: build
 	dh_installdirs
 
 
-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-binary-indep: build install
-# We have nothing to do by default.
-
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
 binary-arch:
+# We have nothing to do by default.
 
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch-indep: build install
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep: build install
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	dh_installdocs
@@ -48,5 +46,5 @@ binary-arch-indep: build install
 	dh_md5sums
 	dh_builddeb
 
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch-indep
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch-indep binary install configure
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure

Message #19 received at 831955-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>

To: 831955-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#831955: fixed in gpsim-doc 0.22.0-2.1

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:18:30 +0000

Source: gpsim-doc
Source-Version: 0.22.0-2.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpsim-doc, 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 831955@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpsim-doc package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:54:01 +0200
Source: gpsim-doc
Binary: gpsim-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 0.22.0-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Armando Segnini <armaseg@gmail.com>
Changed-By: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Description:
 gpsim-doc  - Documentation for gpsim
Closes: 831955
Changes:
 gpsim-doc (0.22.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Apply patch from Santiago Vila to fix "dpkg-buildpackage -A".
     (Closes: #831955)
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