Greetings. I've noticed that some packages fail to build from source when built using "dpkg-buildpackage -A".
This is not only a violation of policy, but also prevents the package from being uploaded in source-only form, as the architecture-independent packages are generated by a dedicated "Arch: all" autobuilder which does exactly "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and nothing else. [ The problem with source-only uploads is aggravated by this bug in ftp.debian.org: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798413 which apparently it's only a "normal" bug ]. As the number of bugs is going to be greater than ten, I hereby announce my intent to report as many bugs of this type as I found. I think those are clearly bugs, and they should be reported. The only thing that may be unclear is the severity. I would like this to be RC in some not too distant future (to be on par with ordinary "dpkg-buildpackage"), but for now I think "severity: important" would be appropriate here. Thanks.