Bug#850232: installation-guide: FTBFS randomly (ERROR: xref linking to appendix-gpl has no generated link text.)

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hello,

Santiago Vila, on Sat 07 Jan 2017 23:37:03 +0100, wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 11:20:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Could you also post build logs which are successful?
> 
> Ok, all the build logs I have, same place as before:
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/installation-guide/

Ok, thanks!

What was in common in failed builds was that it started creating xml
files from gpl.xml (depending in which order the filesystem laid
files).  I could then reproduce the issue easily by starting with it.
What happens is that for 'da' there is no translation, and in that
case msgattrib does *not* create the file, and thus po2xml just fails
without an explicit error message.  I fixed it by passing --force-po to
msgattrib to always create a file, even if without any translation.

> As usual, if you find a fix please consider uploading in source-only
> form (dpkg-buildpackage -S), so that we always have official build
> logs here:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=installation-guide

Well, we usually upload installation-guide when we need it for a d-i
release, so I'm not sure we can really wait for a buildd with unknown
processing power and busyness to build it.

Samuel