Bug#806122: wvstreams: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

Package: src:wvstreams
Version: 4.6.1-7
User: sanvila@debian.org
Usertags: binary-indep
Severity: important

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_prep -i
dh_installdirs -i
# Add here commands to install the indep part of the package into
# debian/<package>-doc.
#INSTALLDOC#
install -d /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libwvstreams4.6-doc/usr/share/doc/libwvstreams4.6-doc
install -d /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libwvstreams4.6-doc/usr/share/doc/libwvstreams4.6-doc/html-api
find Docs/doxy-html -type f -exec install -m644 '{}' /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libwvstreams4.6-doc/usr/share/doc/libwvstreams4.6-doc/html-api/ ';'
dh_install -i
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules DH_OPTIONS=-i binary-common
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog
dh_installdocs
dh_installexamples
dh_installinit
dh_installman
dh_link
dh_strip --exclude=libwvtest.a
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
#Fix other permissions
chmod a-x /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libwvstreams-dev/usr/lib/valgrind/wvstreams.supp
chmod: cannot access '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/libwvstreams-dev/usr/lib/valgrind/wvstreams.supp': No such file or directory
debian/rules:133: recipe for target 'binary-common' failed
make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:159: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep gave error exit status 2
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Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to
this one, but I can give some general hints:

* If all the arch-independent packages are dummy transitional packages
released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them now.
 
* If not, debian/rules should be modified so that the binary-indep
target works in all cases, even when binary-arch is not used (this is
what the "Architecture: all" autobuilder does). For that:
    
* If you are using debhelper, you might want to use options -a and -i
for dh_* commands so that they do not act on packages they do not
have to act.

* Also, if you are using dh, the (independently) optional targets
override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep (for several values
of "foo") may be useful to write a debian/rules which behaves exactly
as desired.


After checking that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B"
work properly, this package will be suitable to be uploaded in
source-only form if you wish (you might want to try it).

Thanks.