Bug#830520: ekg2: FTBFS: install: cannot change permissions of 'debian/ekg2-scripting-perl/usr/share/doc/ekg2-scripting-perl': No such file or directory

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Source: ekg2
> Version: 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-12
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
> User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: ftbfs
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> ekg2 fails to build from source in unstable/amd64:

This problem has been already reported three times in ekg2 (counting
this one), but it's not really a bug in ekg2 but a regression in
debhelper.

This is easy to infer from the build log:

>   dh_installdocs --link-doc=ekg2-core -pekg2 -pekg2-dbg -pekg2-gnupg -pekg2-jabber \
>     -pekg2-scripting-python -pekg2-scripting-perl
>   install: cannot change permissions of 'debian/ekg2-scripting-perl/usr/share/doc/ekg2-scripting-perl': No such file or directory

There is not a chown in debian/rules here, just a call to
dh_installdocs, a debhelper command, so the likelihood of this being a
debhelper bug is very high based solely on the build log.

Additionally, I asked Lucas to use "affects" after he reassigned a
bunch of bugs like this one, so the debhelper bug is shown in
the web page for ekg2:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=ekg2

Ok, at the end of the page, but that's because it's already fixed in
debhelper.

Since it is possible and likely that you may have submitted several
bugs like this one, could you please take care of the reassigns and
merges?

Thanks.