Bug#657047: hplip: does not build in pbuilder
severity 657047 serious
thanks
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:22:09PM +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Source: hplip
> Version: 3.11.12-2
> Severity: normal
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> I always backport new versions of hplip to squeeze. This worked without
> any problem so far...
>
> But building v3.11.12-2 with pbuilder fails because in the debian/rules
> step "Correct Python interpreter path in all executables", readlink
> fails to print ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/hp-hpdio because it links to the
> absolute path /usr/share/hplip/hpdio.py, which is non-existing in the
> pbuilder chroot.
> All other links are relative paths,
> e.g. ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/hp-firmware points
> to ../share/hplip/firmware.py
> Because readlink returns an empty value, the build process just hangs at
> this step forever.
>
> It seems that ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/hp-hpdio should also point to a
> relative path.
I'm getting the same error when building in a sid VM as well, so it
doesn't appear to be limited to pbuilder.
Cheers,
Moritz
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