Bug#662968: RFS: shc/3.8.7-1

[Benoît Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org>]

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thanks

Hi Vibhav,

Vibhav Pant wrote:
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "shc"
> 
>  * Package name    : shc
>    Version         : 3.8.7-1
>    Upstream Author : Francisco Rosales <frosal@fi.upm.es>
>  * URL             : http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/
> [there is no such homepage for this program]
>  * License         : GPL-2
>    Section         : devel
> 
>   It builds those binary packages:
> 
>     shc   - Generic shell script compiler.

Building your package in a clean chroot fails during the test phase with
the following:

  dpkg-buildpackage: source package shc
  dpkg-buildpackage: source version 3.8.7-1
  dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com>
   dpkg-source --before-build shc-3.8.7
  dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
   fakeroot debian/rules clean
  dh clean 
     dh_testdir
     dh_auto_clean
  make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
  rm -f *.o *~ *.x.c
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
     dh_clean
   dpkg-source -b shc-3.8.7
  dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
  dpkg-source: info: building shc using existing ./shc_3.8.7.orig.tar.gz
  dpkg-source: info: building shc in shc_3.8.7-1.debian.tar.gz
  dpkg-source: info: building shc in shc_3.8.7-1.dsc
   debian/rules build
  dh build 
     dh_testdir
     dh_auto_configure
     dh_auto_build
  make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
  cc -Wall -O6  shc.c -o shc
  ***	¿Do you want to probe shc with a test script?
  ***	Please try...	make test
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
     dh_auto_test
  make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
  ***	Compiling script "match"
  CFLAGS="-Wall -O6 " ./shc -v -f match
  shc: WARNING!!
     Scripts of length near to (or higher than) the current System limit on
     "maximum size of arguments to EXEC", could comprise its binary execution.
     In the current System the call sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) returns -1 bytes
     and your script "match" is 336 bytes length.
  shc shll=sh
  shc [-i]=-c
  shc [-x]=exec '%s' "$@"
  shc [-l]=
  shc opts=
  shc: cc -Wall -O6  match.x.c -o match.x
  shc: strip match.x
  shc: chmod go-r match.x
  ***	Running a compiled test script!
  ***	It must show files with substring "sh" in your PATH...
  ./match.x sh
  /usr/sbin/add-shell
  /usr/sbin/remove-shell
  /usr/bin/bashbug
  /usr/bin/chsh
  /usr/bin/cow-shell
  /usr/bin/debconf-show
  /usr/bin/dh_makeshlibs
  /usr/bin/dh_shlibdeps
  /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps
  /usr/bin/gettext.sh
  /usr/bin/instmodsh
  /usr/bin/sha1sum
  /usr/bin/sha224sum
  /usr/bin/sha256sum
  /usr/bin/sha384sum
  /usr/bin/sha512sum
  /usr/bin/shasum
  /usr/bin/shred
  /usr/bin/shuf
  /usr/bin/unshare
  /sbin/shadowconfig
  /sbin/shutdown
  /bin/bash
  /bin/dash
  /bin/rbash
  /bin/sh
  /bin/sh.distrib
  [16419] PAUSED... Hit return!
  make[1]: *** [make_the_test] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/shc-3.8.7'
  dh_auto_test: make -j1 test returned exit code 2
  make: *** [build] Error 29
  dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Additionally, you may want to look into the issues reported there:

  http://mentors.debian.net/package/shc

(Run 'lintian -IE --pedantic *.changes' to check for these issues
locally.)