Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-13 Thread Santiago Vila
> [ snipped wonderful explanation of debhelper internals > regarding those debian/rules targets ] Thanks a lot, Niels! (This should now be fixed in base-files 10.1)

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Santiago Vila: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:10:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > >>> I'm confused. Do you mean that the install target is "taken" >>> and packages may not freely use it in debian/rules? >>> >> >> Afraid so; it occurred before my involvement in debhelper, but I think >> it used to

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:10:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > > I'm confused. Do you mean that the install target is "taken" > > and packages may not freely use it in debian/rules? > > > > Afraid so; it occurred before my involvement in debhelper, but I think > it used to be more common for p

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-11 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:41 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: > Also: Is this the kind of FTBFS bug that should be fixed in stable? > (I think maybe not because it does not happen in autobuilders, > as they do dpkg-buildpackage). As far as I know, there shouldn't be any need for an upload to stable. This

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Santiago Vila: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 06:39:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> This seems like a legitimate bug. >> >> What happens is that debhelper notices that base-files explicitly >> defines an install target and recurses into that (dh, unlike policy, >> also defines an "install(-arch|-

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 06:39:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > This seems like a legitimate bug. > > What happens is that debhelper notices that base-files explicitly > defines an install target and recurses into that (dh, unlike policy, > also defines an "install(-arch|-indep)" sequences as a

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:05:51 -0800 Daniel Schepler wrote: > Source: base-files > Version: 10 > Severity: serious > > From my pbuilder build log: > > ... > debian/rules build > dh build > dh_update_autotools_config > debian/rules override_dh_auto_build > make[1]: Entering directory '/build/b

Bug#886901: base-files: FTBFS: cannot remove '/etc/debian_version'

2018-01-10 Thread Daniel Schepler
Source: base-files Version: 10 Severity: serious >From my pbuilder build log: ... debian/rules build dh build dh_update_autotools_config debian/rules override_dh_auto_build make[1]: Entering directory '/build/base-files-10' sh debian/check-md5sum-etc profile sed -e "s&#OSNAME#&"GNU/`uname |