Package: src:emboss
Version: 6.6.0+dfsg-1
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:

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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.

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