Control: found -1 10.5
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:25:33 +0200 =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Glondu?=
<glo...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.6.3
> Severity: serious
>
> Hello,
>
> At the moment, ocaml FTBFS in unstable. I think this is because of
> debhelper. Indeed, the error message is:
>
> > [...]
> > dh_install: ./debian/ld.conf overwrites debian/tmp/usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf
> > (both installed as: /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf)
> > dh_installdocs
> > dh_installdocs: copy(debian/README.Debian,
> > debian/ocaml-nox/usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian): No such file or
> > directory
> > debian/rules:81: recipe for target 'binary' failed
> > make: *** [binary] Error 2
>
> Here, debian/ocaml-nox/usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian exists
> already and dh_ocamldoc should not try to overwrite it.
>
> Note that debian/ocaml-nox/usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian at
> this moment of the build is a dangling symbolic link, but that
> shouldn't matter.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
> [...]
Hi Stéphane,
Thanks for the report.
I have applied a patch to debhelper to restore the original behaviour,
which was to replace the dangling symlink. As I understand you that was
not what you had hoped, but it is what I have to do to fix this
regression (otherwise other people may still be surprised).
If you don't want to have dh_installdocs to touch that file, then you
should use either:
* --exclude usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian
=> Make dh_installdocs stop trying to install anything there.
* --ignore debian/README.Debian
=> Make dh_installdocs pretend that debian/README.Debian does not
exists.
(Untested, from finger memory)
I would recommend using --ignore for this case because it appears to be
trivially applicable plus I hope to optimize dh_installdocs eventually
and my current optimization methods are disabled with --exclude.
Thanks,
~Niels
