I'm trying to build debhelper from the tar.xz file at https://packages.debian.org/source/stable-backports/debhelper. I've satisfied all its dependencies and ran the makefile in ./debhelper/lib successfully to be sure. I then opened a terminal in ./debhelper, ran the makefile successfully, then tried to run debuild -us -uc. However it spits:
devonc@devongaming:~/Downloads/debhelper$ debuild -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: source package debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 10.2.2~bpo8+1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution jessie-backports
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
dpkg-source --before-build debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
./run dh clean --no-parallel --without autoreconf
dh_auto_clean
make -j1 clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
rm -f *.1 *.7 Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
po4a --previous --rm-translations --rm-backups man/po4a/po4a.cfg
for lang in es pt fr de; do \
if [ -e man/$lang ]; then rmdir man/$lang; fi; \
done;
rmdir: failed to remove 'man/es': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove 'man/pt': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove 'man/fr': Directory not empty
rmdir: failed to remove 'man/de': Directory not empty
Makefile:88: recipe for target 'clean' failed
make[1]: ** * [clean] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
dh_auto_clean: make -j1 clean returned exit code 2
debian/rules:14: recipe for target 'clean' failed
make: *** [clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
devonc@devongaming:~/Downloads/debhelper$
at me. If I run sudo debuild -us -uc I get:
devonc@devongaming:~/Downloads/debhelper$ sudo debuild -us -uc
[sudo] password for devonc:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: source package debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 10.2.2~bpo8+1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution jessie-backports
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
dpkg-source --before-build debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
./run dh clean --no-parallel --without autoreconf
dh_auto_clean
make -j1 clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
rm -f *.1 *.7 Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
po4a --previous --rm-translations --rm-backups man/po4a/po4a.cfg
for lang in es pt fr de; do \
if [ -e man/$lang ]; then rmdir man/$lang; fi; \
done;
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
dh_clean
dpkg-source -b debhelper
dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (native)'
dpkg-source: info: building debhelper in debhelper_10.2.2~bpo8+1.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building debhelper in debhelper_10.2.2~bpo8+1.dsc
debian/rules build
./run dh build --no-parallel --without autoreconf
dh_testdir
dh_auto_configure
dh_auto_build
make -j1
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
printf "package Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Version;\n\$version='10.2.2~bpo8+1';\n1" > \
Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
cat debhelper.pod | \
perl -e ' undef $/; foreach (@ARGV) { open (IN, $_) or die "$_: $!"; $file=<IN>; close IN; if ($file=~m/=head1 .*?\n\n(.*?) - (.*?)\n\n/s) { my $item="=item $1(1)\n\n$2\n\n"; if (" dh_installmanpages " !~ / $1 /) { $list.=$item; } else { $list_deprecated.=$item; } } } END { while (<STDIN>) { s/#LIST#/$list/; s/#LIST_DEPRECATED#/$list_deprecated/; print; }; }' dh_auto_build dh_auto_clean dh_auto_configure dh_auto_install dh_auto_test dh_bugfiles dh_builddeb dh_clean dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_gconf dh_gencontrol dh_icons dh_install dh_installcatalogs dh_installchangelogs dh_installcron dh_installdeb dh_installdebconf dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installemacsen dh_installexamples dh_installgsettings dh_installifupdown dh_installinfo dh_installinit dh_installlogcheck dh_installlogrotate dh_installman dh_installmanpages dh_installmenu dh_installmime dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_installppp dh_installudev dh_installwm dh_installxfonts dh_link dh_lintian dh_listpackages dh_makeshlibs dh_md5sums dh_movefiles dh_perl dh_prep dh_shlibdeps dh_strip dh_systemd_enable dh_systemd_start dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_ucf dh_update_autotools_config dh_usrlocal | \
pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" --name="debhelper" --section=7 > debhelper.7
pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" --name="debhelper" --section=7 debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod > debhelper-obsolete-compat.7
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /100 -name "dh*" \
-exec pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" {} {}.1 \;
po4a --previous -L UTF-8 man/po4a/po4a.cfg
Discard man/de/debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod (39 of 49 strings; only 79.59% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/debhelper.pod (186 of 258 strings; only 72.09% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod (39 of 49 strings; only 79.59% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_clean.pod (20 of 28 strings; only 71.42% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_install.pod (34 of 45 strings; only 75.55% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_installinit.pod (42 of 56 strings; only 75% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_strip.pod (24 of 43 strings; only 55.81% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_systemd_enable.pod (9 of 26 strings; only 34.61% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/dh_systemd_start.pod (11 of 25 strings; only 44% translated; need 80%).
Discard man/es/strings-kept-translations.pod (0 of 1 strings; only 0% translated; need 80%).
set -e; \
for lang in es pt fr de; do \
dir=man/$lang; \
for file in $dir/dh*.pod; do \
prog=`basename $file | sed 's/.pod//'`; \
pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" $file $prog.$lang.1; \
done; \
if [ -e $dir/debhelper.pod ]; then \
cat $dir/debhelper.pod | \
perl -e ' undef $/; foreach (@ARGV) { open (IN, $_) or die "$_: $!"; $file=<IN>; close IN; if ($file=~m/=head1 .*?\n\n(.*?) - (.*?)\n\n/s) { my $item="=item $1(1)\n\n$2\n\n"; if (" dh_installmanpages " !~ / $1 /) { $list.=$item; } else { $list_deprecated.=$item; } } } END { while (<STDIN>) { s/#LIST#/$list/; s/#LIST_DEPRECATED#/$list_deprecated/; print; }; }' `find $dir -type f -maxdepth 1 -name "dh_*.pod" | LC_ALL=C sort` | \
pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" --name="debhelper" --section=7 > debhelper.$lang.7; \
fi; \
if [ -e $dir/debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod ]; then \
pod2man --utf8 -c Debhelper -r "10.2.2~bpo8+1" --name="debhelper" --section=7 $dir/debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod > debhelper-obsolete-compat.$lang.7; \
fi; \
done
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
dh_auto_test
make -j1 test
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
printf "package Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Version;\n\$version='10.2.2~bpo8+1';\n1" > \
Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
./run perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ && ! /\.svn/ && -f && -x } @ARGV' t/* t/*/*
t/dh-lib.t .......................... ok
t/dh_compress.t ..................... ok
t/dh_install.t ...................... ok
t/dh_link.t ......................... ok
t/maintscript.t ..................... ok
t/override_target.t ................. ok
t/pod.t ............................. ok
t/size.t ............................ ok
t/syntax.t .......................... ok
t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests.t .. ok
t/dh_installdocs/dh_installdocs.t ... ok
All tests successful.
Files=11, Tests=616, 7 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr 0.00 sys + 1.88 cusr 0.12 csys = 2.06 CPU)
Result: PASS
-# clean up log etc
./run dh_clean
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
fakeroot debian/rules binary
./run dh binary --no-parallel --without autoreconf
dh_testroot
dh_prep
debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
./run dh_auto_install --destdir=debian/debhelper
make -j1 install DESTDIR=/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
install -d /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/bin \
/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts \
/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence \
/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem
install dh dh_auto_build dh_auto_clean dh_auto_configure dh_auto_install dh_auto_test dh_bugfiles dh_builddeb dh_clean dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_gconf dh_gencontrol dh_icons dh_install dh_installcatalogs dh_installchangelogs dh_installcron dh_installdeb dh_installdebconf dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installemacsen dh_installexamples dh_installgsettings dh_installifupdown dh_installinfo dh_installinit dh_installlogcheck dh_installlogrotate dh_installman dh_installmanpages dh_installmenu dh_installmime dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_installppp dh_installudev dh_installwm dh_installxfonts dh_link dh_lintian dh_listpackages dh_makeshlibs dh_md5sums dh_movefiles dh_perl dh_prep dh_shlibdeps dh_strip dh_systemd_enable dh_systemd_start dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_ucf dh_update_autotools_config dh_usrlocal /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/bin
install -m 0644 autoscripts/* /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
install -m 0644 Debian/Debhelper/*.pm /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper
[ "/usr" = /usr ] || \
sed -i '/$prefix=/s@/usr@/usr@g' /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm
install -m 0644 Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/*.pm /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence
install -m 0644 Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/*.pm /home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper/debian/debhelper/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/devonc/Downloads/debhelper'
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_installexamples
dh_installman
dh_perl
dh_link
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package 'debhelper' in '../debhelper_10.2.2~bpo8+1_all.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'dh-systemd' in '../dh-systemd_10.2.2~bpo8+1_all.deb'.
dpkg-genchanges >../debhelper_10.2.2~bpo8+1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload
dpkg-source --after-build debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included)
Now running lintian...
warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges!
E: debhelper changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file jessie-backports
Finished running lintian.
devonc@devongaming:~/Downloads/debhelper$
Debuild and sudo debuild also get the same errors respectively.
I'm running Linux Lite 3.2 (based on Ubuntu 16.04). This is the second time I've ever tried to build something from source, so please explain to me as you would a beginner.
This is also only my third time ever posting to askubuntu (from a new account this time; deactivated the email for the old one), so if I need to edit the formatting on anything please let me know.
