[Dsc-maintainers] dsc-statistics documentation build fail on mipsel

[Marc Haber]

[please Cc: me on replies, I am not subscribed to debian-mips]

Hi,

dsc-statistics build has failed on monteverdi [mipsel] (see
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=dsc-statistics&arch=mipsel&ver=201008131729-6&stamp=1302731171).

The failure has happened in a safety check that checks whether the
documentation pdf that is destined to be included in the architecture
dependent package dsc-statistics-collector contains the expected
contents.

As the documentation build has worked on all archs except mipsel, I
suspect that some part of the latex => pdftex => dvips => ps2pdf
toolchain may be broken on mipsel. I don't have any other explanation
for the build failure.

The following one-line patch (which will be in the next upload) may
assist in finding out what's going wrong:

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 96af30a..70e8a8a 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ binary-arch:
        pdftotext docsrc/dsc-manual.pdf docsrc/dsc-manual.txt
        pdftotext doc/dsc-manual.pdf doc/dsc-manual.txt
        if [ "$$(wdiff --no-common docsrc/dsc-manual.txt doc/dsc-manual.txt | wc -l)" -gt 6 ]; then \
+               wdiff --no-common docsrc/dsc-manual.txt doc/dsc-manual.txt | head -n 100; \
                echo "too many changes in docs since release, .orig.tar.gz repackaging needed"; \
                exit 1; \
        fi

I would appreciate if somebody with access to a mipsel box could check
this out.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings
Marc

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