[debhelper-devel] Could these build failures be a debhelper issue? -> #827724 in findutils

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> last night I uploaded screen 4.4.0-1. It FTBFS'ed on multiple
> architectures:
> 
>   https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=screen
> 
> The relevant parts seems:
> 
>      dh_md5sums -a -O--parallel
>   md5sum: usr/share/doc/screen-dbgsym: No such file or directory
>   dh_md5sums: (cd debian/.debhelper/screen/dbgsym-root >/dev/null ; find . -type f ! -regex './DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\0' | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null returned exit code 123
>   debian/rules:19: recipe for target 'binary-arch' failed
>   make: *** [binary-arch] Error 123
> 
> This doesn't look like an issue caused by some upstream change to me
> but like a potential debhelper issue. What do you think?

Nope. It's https://bugs.debian.org/827724 in findutils: find -type f
matches symlinks in armel armhf and mipsel. Fits.

		Regards, Axel
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