[debhelper-devel] Bug#891546: debhelper: spurious 'dh: package ARRAY(0x5701a65c) is not in control info' in non-free packages

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: debhelper
Version: 11.1.5
Severity: important

Hi,

latest debhelper spews out spurious warnings:

[...]
   dh_testroot -i
   dh_prep -i
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
mkdir debian/tmp
cp -al build/ debian/tmp/usr
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b634b7a250) is not in control info
   dh_install -i
   debian/rules override_dh_installdocs-indep
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
dh_installdocs -pnvidia-cuda-doc --doc-main-package=nvidia-cuda-toolkit
dh_installdocs --remaining-packages
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
   dh_installchangelogs -i
   debian/rules override_dh_installman
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
dh_installman --language=C
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-9.1.85'
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b6349a1be8) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b6349a1be8) is not in control info
dh: package ARRAY(0x55b6349a1be8) is not in control info
   dh_lintian -i
   dh_perl -i
   dh_link -i
[...]

This was from a current nvidia-cuda-toolkit binary-indep build in
experimental ... (not yet pushed).

I also found it in another non-free rebuild log (but there haven't been
many builds since that debhelper version was released):

sid/i386:
emacs25-non-dfsg_25.2+1-1_indep.log:dh: package ARRAY(0x5701a65c) is not in control info


Andreas