FTBFS in latest archive rebuild test

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-autotest/2007-December/000369.html
Automatic build of pbuilder_0.176ubuntu1 on royal by sbuild/powerpc 1.170.5

dh_movefiles -ppbuilder-uml --sourcedir=debian/pbuilder
 dpkg-genchanges -B -mUbuntu/powerpc Build Daemon <buildd at royal.buildd> >../pbuilder_0.176ubuntu1_powerpc.changes
dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch-independent packages
dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2

Last built for i386 and amd64 on 2007-11-29

ftbfs for ppc only?

new ->confirmed

This bug appears to be invalid. pbuilder is not supposed to be build on ppc.

Anyway the following patch _may_ fix this, but I cannot verify it:
--- pbuilder-0.177/debian/rules 2007-06-25 14:09:46.000000000 +0200
+++ pbuilder-0.177ubuntu1/debian/rules 2008-01-30 23:34:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@
        dh_compress -a -X.pdf
        dh_fixperms -a
        dh_installdeb -a
- dh_gencontrol -a
+ dh_gencontrol -s
        dh_md5sums -a
- dh_builddeb -a
+ dh_builddeb -s
 endif

Sorry, re-opening.
I really thing people on ppc should be able to build it from source, if they wish.. :)
So, please report back if the patch fixes it. Thanks.

Lowering the importance of this bug; since pbuilder builds no arch: any packages on powerpc, pbuilder should simply be added to P-a-s (which appears to have been done now). Building the arch: all packages on powerpc should be possible, but is not required.

Daniel, a more correct patch would be to replace all instances of "-a" with "-s" in debian/rules. I would suggest providing a patch to do this and subscribing ubuntu-main-sponsors.

Adam: you seem to be a bug contact - is this OK to be uploaded?

Other than filing the bug, I sure hope I'm not a contact for pbuilder. ;) That said, the patch looks fine to me. Not sure if it's worth the block-diff fork from Debian, unless someone wants to push this upstream too, though.

Can somebody forward this to Debian?

This bug was fixed in the package pbuilder - 0.181ubuntu2

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pbuilder (0.181ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: s/ -a/ -s/ to fix FTBFS on powerpc (LP: #184218)

 -- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:15 +0100

marking the hardy task as won't fix, since it's not SRU-worthy:
[20:19:29] <slangasek> sistpoty: I think that's below the threshold of bugs worth bothering about

This bug was fixed in the package pbuilder - 0.183ubuntu1~hardy1

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pbuilder (0.183ubuntu1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low

  * Automated backport upload; no source changes.

pbuilder (0.183ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/control: Prefer debootstrap over cdebootstrap.
    - debian/control: Demote cowdancer from Recommends to Suggests. This fits
      Suggests semantics. (Forwarded to Debian #504594)
    - debian/doc-base: Fix section. (Forwarded to Debian #504596)
    - pbuilderrc:
      + Set default archive to "archive.ubuntu.com".
      + Set default distribution to "jaunty".
      + Set Ubuntu components, but comment them out, so that it still defaults
        to "main".
      + Use debootstrap rather than cdebootstrap.
      + Use "sudo -E" for PBUILDERROOTCMD. (LP #175776, Debian #361362)
    - debian/pbuilder.config: add explanation header on new install that the
      new /etc/pbuilderrc uses the default values from
      /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc. (Forwarded to Debian #504599)
    - debian/pbuilder.templates, debian/pbuilder.config: Use Ubuntu mirror by
      default.
    - pbuilder-satisfydepends-checkparams, pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi: Fix
      pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi: gdebi needs to be called from outside the
      chroot as the .dsc file isn't copied yet into the chroot.
      (Debian #472407, LP #242449).
    - pbuilder-buildpackage, pbuilder.8, pbuilder-checkparams,
      pbuilder-modules: Add support for building twice in a row.
      (Debian #493538)

pbuilder (0.183) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Junichi Uekawa ]
  * use my local approx mirror for testing, since Argentina Debconf
    place does not have connection to cdn.debian.net / cdn.debian.or.jp
  * REMOVEPACKAGES="", thanks to Sven Joachim (closes: #500002)

  [ Ben Finney ]
  * Dereference symlinks when copying hooks. (closes: #499358)

pbuilder (0.182) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Junichi Uekawa ]
  * updated japanese documentation ja.po
  * implement a bash functional unit-testing testsuite, testlib.
  * run the unit-tests in makefile make check
  * Reorder command-line options, and add error check so that things are
    better checked.
  * update japanese po translation.

  [ Ignacio Mondino ]
  * [INTL:es] Spanish translation for po-debconf template (closes:
    #493649)

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * Pass APT::Install-Recommends=false to gdebi when possible
  * Wrap build-deps, deps, and uploaders to get cleaner diffs.
  * Suggest gdebi; closes: #488314.
  * Pass -s to dh_* instead of checking dpkg-architecture and using -a
  * Cleanup rules
  * pbuilder-buildpackage-funcs: always pass chroot to satisfydepends
  * Drop build-dep on rootstrap; only used at runtime
  * pdebuild: Move "$@" to end of "arg chain" for PDEBUILD_BUILDER calls
  * pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi: add "--force-yes" to apt-get call
  * UNRELEASED snapshot banner

pbuilder (0.181ubuntu7) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Demote cowdancer from Recommends to Suggests. This fits Suggests
    semantics, and avoids pulling in qemu, bochs, gcc-3.4, and other stuff
    into main.

pbuilder (0.181ubuntu6) intrepid; urge...