Package: src:pidgin-blinklight Version: 0.11.1-2 User: [email protected] 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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_prep dh_installdirs /usr/bin/make install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' Making install in po make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/po' /bin/mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share installing de.gmo as /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-blinklight.mo installing sv.gmo as /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-blinklight.mo if test "pidgin-blinklight" = "gettext-tools"; then \ /bin/mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share/gettext/po; \ for file in Makefile.in.in remove-potcdate.sin quot.sed boldquot.sed [email protected] [email protected] insert-header.sin Rules-quot Makevars.template; do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$file \ /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share/gettext/po/$file; \ done; \ for file in Makevars; do \ rm -f /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/share/gettext/po/$file; \ done; \ else \ : ; \ fi make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/po' Making install in src make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' test -z "/usr/lib/pidgin-blinklight" || /bin/mkdir -p "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/pidgin-blinklight" /bin/bash ../libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c blinklight-fixperm '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/pidgin-blinklight' /usr/bin/make install-exec-hook make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' chmod +s /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/pidgin-blinklight/blinklight-fixperm make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' test -z "/usr/lib/purple-2" || /bin/mkdir -p "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/purple-2" /bin/bash ../libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c pidgin-blinklight.la '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/purple-2' libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib/purple-2' make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src' make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' rm -f /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/pidgin-blinklight/usr/lib/purple-2/pidgin-blinklight.la dpkg-genchanges -A >../pidgin-blinklight_0.11.1-2_all.changes dpkg-genchanges: error: binary build with no binary artifacts found; cannot distribute dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This usually happens because there is a binary-indep target in debian/rules which is either empty or does not do anything useful. 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 generates the architecture independent packages (and only those). 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 (I recommend that you try it). Thanks.
