Package: src:xemacs21 Version: 21.4.24-5 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs Dear maintainer:
I tried to build this package in buster with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" but it failed: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] debian/rules build-indep chmod +x debian/makevarfile debian/makevarfile "debian/var_file.pl" \ "MAJVERSION" "21" \ "VERSION" "21.4.24" \ "SUBNAME" "" \ "CONF_NAME" "x86_64-linux-gnu" \ "ARCH" "x86_64" \ "HTML_FILE_LOC" "debian/html" \ "TMP_FILE_LOC" "debian/tmp" \ "PREFIX" "usr" \ "TOPDIR" "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>" \ "SUPPORT_BINS" "b2m etags gnuclient gnuattach gnudoit rcs-checkin ellcc" [... snipped ...] dh_md5sums -pxemacs21 -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21 dh_builddeb -pxemacs21 -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21 dpkg-deb: building package 'xemacs21' in '../xemacs21_21.4.24-5_all.deb'. dh_testroot dh_installdirs -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) dh_movefiles -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel sh debian/move-el-files debian/tmp/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/lisp /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/lisp End directory given ( /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/lisp ) is not there... making it. gzip -9nfr /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24 || exit 0 ( mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel/usr/share/doc ; cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel/usr/share/doc ; ln -sf xemacs21-support xemacs21-supportel ) dh_fixperms -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_installdeb -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_installdeb: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) dh_shlibdeps -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_shlibdeps: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) dh_gencontrol -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_makeshlibs -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_md5sums -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dh_builddeb -pxemacs21-supportel -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-supportel dpkg-deb: building package 'xemacs21-supportel' in '../xemacs21-supportel_21.4.24-5_all.deb'. dh_testroot dh_installdirs -pxemacs21-support -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support dh_installdirs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) dh_movefiles -pxemacs21-support -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support dh_movefiles: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.24 cp /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/etc/xemacs-icon*.* /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/icons cp debian/00debian.el /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/etc/xemacs21/site-start.d/ cp debian/site-start.el /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages/lisp cp debian/debian-rundir.el /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages/lisp rm -f /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/info/xemacs21/dir* ( cd /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support ; find . -name .cvsignore | xargs rm -f ) rm /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh dh_installdocs --package=xemacs21-support -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support dh_installdocs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) dh_installchangelogs -pxemacs21-support -P/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 5 in use) mv /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/doc/xemacs21-support/ChangeLog /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/doc/xemacs21-support/changelog mv: cannot stat '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/xemacs21-support/usr/share/doc/xemacs21-support/ChangeLog': No such file or directory debian/PackagesMakefile:68: recipe for target 'xemacs21-support' failed make[1]: *** [xemacs21-support] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' debian/rules:123: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep subprocess returned exit status 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above is how the build ends in my autobuilder and it's not necessarily the relevant part. The failure is not, however, related to using dpkg-buildpackage -A, as it also fails in reproducible builds: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/xemacs21.html If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects, so that this is still visible in the page for this package. [ But in this case, I believe this is caused by a behaviour change in debhelper and I suppose you will have to cope with it ]. Thanks.