Re: FTBFS of netcfg on s390 after debhelper v7 conversion
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> I've just tried building netcfg on s390, but that fails with:
> dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not
> appear in package's architecture list (i386 sparc alpha m68k arm
> armel armeb powerpc mips mipsel hppa ia64 amd64 lpia kfreebsd-i386
> kfreebsd-amd64)
> dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol returned exit code 255
>
> AFAICT the reason is that the binary netcfg is !s390 (while
> netcfg-static is arch any).
>
> Before the conversion to debhelper v7, we called most dh_command with
> the '-s' option. If I add an overrides in d/rules for dh_gencontrol
> *and* dh_builddeb to pass the -s option, netcfg builds correctly again.
As there have not yet been any replies, I've committed this solution. I'm
still unsure if it's the best solution.
> I wonder why this is needed? Shouldn't this "just work"?
>
> Is there a better solution than adding the overrides?
> Maybe 'dh -s $@', but I'd expect that will cause an error where we copy
> templates in override_dh_installdebconf...
>
> I also wonder if other converted packages could have the same issue.
Cheers,
FJP
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