Bug#806090: openssh: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

Package: src:openssh
Version: 1:6.9p1-2
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 binary-indep --with=autoreconf,systemd
   dh_testroot -i
   dh_prep -i
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
/usr/bin/make -C build-deb DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp install-nokeys
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-deb'
(cd openbsd-compat && /usr/bin/make)
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-deb/openbsd-compat'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-deb/openbsd-compat'
../mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/bin
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/bin
../mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/sbin
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/sbin
../mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/share/man
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/share
mkdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/share/man
../mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1

[... snipped ...]

# Remove version control tags to avoid unnecessary conffile
# resolution steps for administrators.
sed -i '/\$OpenBSD:/d' \
	debian/openssh-client/etc/ssh/moduli \
	debian/openssh-client/etc/ssh/ssh_config
sed: can't read debian/openssh-client/etc/ssh/moduli: No such file or directory
sed: can't read debian/openssh-client/etc/ssh/ssh_config: No such file or directory
debian/rules:177: recipe for target 'override_dh_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:124: 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.