Control: severity -1 normal On 16.03.2017 17:13, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Package: bash > Version: 4.4-4+b1 > Severity: serious > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > Dear Maintainer, > > in debian/rules the $(STRIP) command is tried to be executed even when empty. > > The code is > ifneq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)) > STRIP = $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-strip > else > STRIP = strip > endif > endif > ... > $(STRIP) -R .comment -R .note debian/bash.preinst > > This sets me into a R shell :-) > > Reproducer: > $ apt-get source bash > $ cd bash-4.4 > $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="" debuild -b -uc -us > > $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS) is empty by default here.
please read about bug severities. This works by default as seen by the latest binNMU.