Package: debhelper Version: 10.7.2 Severity: important Hello,
When debhelper calls dh_gencontrol while building an arch-dependent
package, it appends -a to the command line. This can mean that the -a
comes after '--', so it is not consumed by dh_gencontrol and is passed
on to dpkg-gencontrol, which does not understand -a.
For example:
dh_installdeb -a
dh_gencontrol -- -Ddh-elpa-Version=1.10 -a
dpkg-gencontrol: error: unknown option '-a'
Use --help for program usage information.
dh_gencontrol: dpkg-gencontrol -ppython-notmuch -ldebian/changelog
-Tdebian/python-notmuch.substvars -Pdebian/python-notmuch -UMulti-Arch
-Ddh-elpa-Version=1.10 -a returned exit code 2
I believe that debhelper should ensure that the -a is inserted before
the '--'.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20161112.1
ii binutils 2.28-6
ii dh-autoreconf 14
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.038-1
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii file 1:5.30-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2
ii perl 5.26.0-4
ii po-debconf 1.0.20
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none>
-- no debconf information
--
Sean Whitton
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