Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.32 Severity: normal When building a package in “overlay” mode, the upstream source is by definition not in the VCS working tree until the overlay is assembled.
So commands such as ‘debian/rules clean’ will not work, if issued
before the overlay is assembled:
$ gbp config buildpackage.overlay
buildpackage.overlay=true
$ ls -1F
debian/
$ gbp buildpackage --source
dh clean --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=pybuild
debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/bignose/Projects/debian/python-adventure/trunk'
dh_auto_clean
E: pybuild pybuild:88: cannot detect build system, please use --system
option or set PYBUILD_SYSTEM env. variable
dh_auto_clean: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.4 --dir . returned
exit code 11
debian/rules:97: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_clean' failed
[…]
The ‘gbp buildpackage’ command, for a package in “overlay” mode,
should not assume any of the ‘debian/rules’ commands will work in the
absence of the upstream source. That includes ‘clean’.
Instead, before issuing the ‘debian/rules clean’ command, the overlay
needs to be assembled: get the upstream source for the package, then
overlay the Debian packaging files onto it. Only after that can
‘debian/rules clean’ be expected to work in the exported tree.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_AU.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on:
ii devscripts 2.15.9
ii git 1:2.6.1-1
ii man-db 2.7.4-1
ii python 2.7.9-1
ii python-dateutil 2.2-2
ii python-pkg-resources 18.4-1
ii python-six 1.10.0-1
Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends:
ii cowbuilder 0.74
ii pbuilder 0.219
ii pristine-tar 1.33
ii python-requests 2.7.0-3
ii sbuild 0.66.0-2
Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests:
ii python-notify 0.1.1-4
ii unzip 6.0-18
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