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.

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