[DRE-maint] Bug#676208: webgen0.4: FTBFS: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:97: formal argument cannot be an instance variable (SyntaxError)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: webgen0.4
Version: 0.4.7-6
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120605 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> dh_auto_build
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:31: warning: method redefined; discarding old visit_String
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:4: warning: previous definition of visit_String was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:39: warning: method redefined; discarding old register
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:12: warning: previous definition of register was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:43: warning: method redefined; discarding old format_time
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/psych_tree.rb:16: warning: previous definition of format_time was here
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:115: warning: method redefined; discarding old to_s
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/syck_hack.rb:44: warning: previous definition of to_s was here
> (cd lib; ln -s webgen webgen0.4)
> (cd doc ; ruby -I ../lib ../bin/webgen)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:97: formal argument cannot be an instance variable (SyntaxError)
> ...h should be used' ) {|@template|}
> ...                               ^
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:98: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> ...hich should be used' ) {|@style|}
> ...                               ^
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:141: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> ...ten without asking.' ) {|@force|}
> ...                               ^
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:403: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> ...ectory is used." ) {|@directory|}
> ...                               ^
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/webgen0.4/cli.rb:404: formal argument cannot be an instance variable
> ...ity level (0-3)" ) {|@verbosity|}
> ...                               ^
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
> 	from ../bin/webgen:3:in `<main>'
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/05/webgen0.4_0.4.7-6_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.