Package: src:tunnelx
Severity: serious
Hello Wookey (and Niels).
I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed:
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debian/rules build-indep
dh --with javahelper build-indep
dh: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
dh_testdir -i
dh_update_autotools_config -i
dh_auto_configure -i
dh_auto_configure: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
jh_linkjars -i
debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
docbook-to-man debian/manpage.sgml > tunnelx.1
dh_installman --verbose
dh_installman: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
install -d debian/tunnelx/usr/share/man/man1/
install -p -m0644 tunnelx.1 debian/tunnelx/usr/share/man/man1/tunnelx.1
man --recode UTF-8 ./tunnelx\.1 > tunnelx\.1\.new
chmod 0755 -- tunnelx.1.new
chown 0:0 -- tunnelx.1.new
chown: changing ownership of 'tunnelx.1.new': Operation not permitted
dh_installman: chown 0:0 -- tunnelx.1.new returned exit code 1
debian/rules:11: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build-indep' failed
make: *** [build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep gave error exit status 2
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The reason seems to be that there is a "dh_installman" command inside
override_dh_auto_build target, which runs as a normal user, but
dh_installman makes a chown and it fails, because we are not root yet.
Since we are already using "dh" here, the easy fix is not to call
dh_installman yet but instead let it happen automatically as part of
the dh sequence.
Trivial patch below.
The funny thing is that "dpkg-buildpackage" alone does not fail and I
don't know why. I'm Cc:ing Niels (with X-Debbugs-Cc) in case he wants
to say something about this.
Thanks.
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ export JAVE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
override_dh_auto_build:
docbook-to-man debian/manpage.sgml > tunnelx.1
- dh_installman --verbose
override_dh_clean:
dh_clean
