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pkgbinarymangler package

pbuilder fails if pkgbinarymangler is installed

Bug #315101 reported by Luca Falavigna on 2009-01-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pkgbinarymangler

pbuilder fails to build packages if pkgbinarymangler (version 51) is installed.
I attach two build logs, the first one is the one obtained without adding pkgbinarymangler to EXTRAPACKAGES pbuilder options, the second one is the one with pkgbinarymangler support enabled at compile time.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/pkgbinarymangler

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote on 2009-01-08:

SUCCESS Edit (14.5 KiB, text/plain)

This one is without pkgbinarymangler.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote on 2009-01-08:

FAIL Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain)

This one is with pkgbinarymangler.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote on 2009-02-17:

pkgbinarymangler_53.debdiff Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain)

This is a *very* uncommon situation. pkgsanitycheck invokes /usr/share/pkgbinarymangler/common, which checks existence of debian/control file and fails if not present. On standard environments we always expect to find that file, but pbuilder does use of a dummy package called "pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy" which seems not to provide it. This leads to a weird FTBFS as shown in FAIL buildlog.

Attached solution does not enforce presence of debian/control. pkgsanitycheck fails as well (as the snippet below), but the build process runs correctly as expected.

[snip]
Maintainer: Debian Pbuilder Team <email address hidden>
Description: Dummy package to satisfy dependencies with aptitude - created by pbuilder
This package was created automatically by pbuilder and should
grep: debian/control: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/pkgsanitychecks: Error: not in source package directory
dpkg-deb: building package `pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy' in `/tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy.deb'.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
[/snip]