Bug#930587: release-notes: fails to build for jessie and stretch

[Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2019-06-16 at 14:40:53 +0800, Wenbin Lv wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

> Recent transition from .dbk to .po for the ca language leaves some
> untracked .dbk files in the source directory and causes git checkout of
> jessie and stretch to fail in the build system of the Debian website,
> showing the following errors[1]:
> 
> rebuilding the release notes for {jessie,stretch}
> error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
> 	ca/about.dbk
> 	ca/installing.dbk
> 	ca/issues.dbk
> 	ca/moreinfo.dbk
> 	ca/old-stuff.dbk
> 	ca/release-notes.dbk
> 	ca/upgrading.dbk
> 	ca/whats-new.dbk

This looks like a bug in the website build machinery? These files are
left behind in the same way they are for all other languages. The
difference is that they got switched very recently.

I'm assuming from your description that the website machinery, does a
git checkout on each specific branch and then builds it, but is not
running «make clean» before each git checkout?

> which causes buster version of the release notes to be built for jessie
> and stretch[2][3].

Right!

> Please remove the untracked files to fix the issue.

I don't think there is nothing to fix in the release-notes package
itself. This sould probably be reassigned.

Thanks,
Guillem