Hi. I'm trying to make gettext buildable on hppa (and every other
non-java arch), but there is a subtle problem with debhelper, maybe you
can help.
After accepting the modifications proposed in Bug#982085 (with minor
changes), this is what I have in debian/gettext.install
[!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] <!nojava> usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar
usr/share/java
[!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] <!nojava>
usr/share/gettext/javaversion.class
which AFAIK means "only if the arch supports Java, and only if nojava
has not been selected".
So far, so good.
Then I have this in debian/not-installed
[hppa hurd-i386 kfreebsd-any] <nojava> usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar
[hppa hurd-i386 kfreebsd-any] <nojava> usr/share/gettext/javaversion.class
which apparently means "only if the architecture does not support Java
AND only if nojava is selected"
This is really a problem, because we would really want that to be OR,
not AND, so that we have the logical negation of the *.install script.
As a result, gettext on hppa finally is "buildable" (in the sense that
build-dependencies may finally be met), but it fails to build from source.
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gettext&arch=hppa&ver=0.21-8&stamp=1660663945&raw=0
Is there a way to tell dh-exec that we want those conditions in
"not-installed" to be combined with OR?
(I'm Cc:ing also Jessica Clarke, who initially provided the patch for this).
I believe there is not, so what I will surely do in the meantime is to
call dh_missing with --list-missing.
However, before doing so, I wonder if it would be possible for you to
try the current gettext in unstable with nojava profile, just to be sure
that it will work when I upload the version using --list-missing.
(I also would like to hear from hurd-i386 porters before making more
uploads, as the failure there is not the same).
Thanks.
