On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 01:16:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I tried to see how other packages work around this misfeature, and I > see that openssh just hacks things to make the second > dh_auto_configure a no-op: > > override_dh_auto_configure-arch: > dh_auto_configure -Bdebian/build-deb -- $(confflags) > ifeq ($(filter noudeb,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)),) > dh_auto_configure -Bdebian/build-udeb -- $(confflags_udeb) > # Avoid libnsl linkage. Ugh. > perl -pi -e 's/ +-lnsl//' debian/build-udeb/config.status > cd debian/build-udeb && ./config.status > endif > > override_dh_auto_configure-indep: > > RLY?
You've misread this, I'm afraid. The point of the *-indep overrides in openssh is to avoid doing unnecessary work in architecture-independent-only builds, not to avoid duplicate configure steps. openssh has some Architecture: all binary packages, which Debian's autobuilders build on separate builders that do the rough equivalent of "sbuild --arch-all --no-arch-any", so a small amount of time optimising this was worthwhile. This is unrelated to the problem you're running into. Proof: I introduced this change in https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/commit/c1f965684b54bed51e8cb1e7a2f3d2003d64d341. Aside from its commit message, you can also look at build logs from before and after this change: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openssh&arch=i386&ver=1%3A6.9p1-2&stamp=1441886711&raw=0 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openssh&arch=i386&ver=1%3A6.9p1-3&stamp=1448408594&raw=0 Both before and after this change, you can see that there's only one dh_auto_configure pass (two actual configure runs, but that's because there's one for deb and one for udeb). I only started doing source-only uploads with 1:6.9p1-3, so you can't easily see what it would have looked like beforehand, but you can see that https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openssh&arch=all&ver=1%3A6.9p1-3&stamp=1448408071&raw=0 is nice and short once it gets past installing build-dependencies. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
