On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:26:28PM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > Hello, > > I'm the maintainer of courier and I'm facing a rather strange build failure:
Is there a bug you can reference? I assume you mean 0.44.2-3 on unstable. > The execution of mkinstalldirs (in a for-loop) fails after many successful > executions. hmm, the last powerpc autobuild : http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=courier&ver=0.44.2-3&arch=powerpc&stamp=1078936389&file=log&as=raw failed like this: dh_link -a dh_compress -a dh_fixperms -a dh_fixperms: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 ****************************************************************************** Build finished at 20040310-1132 FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died] Purging chroot-unstable/build/buildd/courier-0.44.2 But that is a different failure from what you describe, it looks to me. > Ireally have no clue what's wrong because powerpc is the only architecture > that fails at this point. > > It would be nice if someone on this list could try to reproduce the problem > (please use a clean environment) and tell us if the problem is reproducible. I'm updating a clean unstable chroot and will try the build shortly. -David