Package: debhelper Version: 9.20130507 Severity: important Testing Lintian with the new version of debhelper, I noticed a new FTBFS[1]. It appears that dh_perl relies on dh_installdirs to create the "debian/<pkg>" dir. So far the bug has only triggered for -udeb packages (presumably because dh_installchangelogs hides it for most regular debs when it creates the usr/share/doc/<pkg> dir/symlink).
~Niels [1] Log: """ deb-format-udeb-compression: ---- START BUILD LOG deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-buildpackage: source package deb-format-udeb-compression deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0 deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]> deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-buildpackage: warning: debian/rules is not executable; fixing that deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit --before-build deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0 deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64 deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source: warning: --auto-commit is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V1 deb-format-udeb-compression: fakeroot debian/rules clean deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: dh clean deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_testdir deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_auto_clean deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_clean deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source -iNEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING -INEVER_MATCH_ANYTHING --auto-commit -b deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0 deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source: warning: --auto-commit is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V1 deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source: info: building deb-format-udeb-compression in deb-format-udeb-compression_1.0.tar.gz deb-format-udeb-compression: dpkg-source: info: building deb-format-udeb-compression in deb-format-udeb-compression_1.0.dsc deb-format-udeb-compression: debian/rules build deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: dh build deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_testdir deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_auto_configure deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_auto_build deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_auto_test deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: fakeroot debian/rules binary deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' deb-format-udeb-compression: dh binary deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_testroot deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_prep deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_auto_install deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_installdocs deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_installchangelogs deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_perl deb-format-udeb-compression: Can't stat debian/some-udeb: No such file or directory deb-format-udeb-compression: at /usr/bin/dh_perl line 115 deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_link deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_compress deb-format-udeb-compression: dh_compress: Can't cd to debian/some-udeb: No such file or directory deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: *** [binary] Error 2 deb-format-udeb-compression: make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/lintian-tests/deb-format-udeb-compression/deb-format-udeb-compression-1.0' [...] """ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

