[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#806022: emboss: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:emboss
Version: 6.6.0+dfsg-1
User: sanvila at 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 autotools-dev,autoreconf
   dh_testroot -i
   dh_prep -i
	rm -f debian/emboss-data.substvars
	rm -f debian/emboss-data.*.debhelper
	rm -rf debian/emboss-data/
	rm -f debian/emboss-doc.substvars
	rm -f debian/emboss-doc.*.debhelper
	rm -rf debian/emboss-doc/
	rm -f debian/emboss-test.substvars
	rm -f debian/emboss-test.*.debhelper
	rm -rf debian/emboss-test/
	rm -f debian/jemboss.substvars
	rm -f debian/jemboss.*.debhelper
	rm -rf debian/jemboss/
   dh_installdirs -i
	install -d debian/emboss-data
	install -d debian/emboss-data/usr/share/EMBOSS
	install -d debian/emboss-doc
	install -d debian/emboss-doc/usr/share/EMBOSS/doc
	install -d debian/emboss-test

[... snipped ...]

sed -i "/SET emboss_qadata/cSET emboss_qadata /usr/share/EMBOSS/test" /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/usr/share/EMBOSS/test/.embossrc
mv /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/usr/share/EMBOSS/test/.embossrc /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/etc/emboss/embossrc.d/emboss-test
find /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/usr/share/EMBOSS/test/data -executable -type f -exec chmod a-x \{\} \;
find /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/usr/share/EMBOSS/test -type d -name CVS | xargs rm -rf
find /<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/debian/emboss-test/usr/share/EMBOSS/test -type f -name .cvsignore -delete
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/emboss-6.6.0+dfsg'
   dh_install -i
	cp --reflink=auto -a debian/tmp/debian/emboss_tmp/usr/share/EMBOSS debian/emboss-data/usr/share/
cp: cannot stat 'debian/tmp/debian/emboss_tmp/usr/share/EMBOSS': No such file or directory
dh_install: cp --reflink=auto -a debian/tmp/debian/emboss_tmp/usr/share/EMBOSS debian/emboss-data/usr/share/ returned exit code 1
debian/rules:6: 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.