Issue with building FR 3.0.x packages on Ubuntu 14.04

[Alex Sharaz]

  > Is there any reason your message has tons of "**" inserted?  That makes
it difficult to read.

AlI I did was copy and paste what appeared on the console during the
attempted package build.

Rgds
A


On 29 March 2016 at 14:56, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Alex Sharaz <alex.sharaz at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > This has been with me for a while. When ever I try building packages I
> end
> > up with
>
>   Is there any reason your message has tons of "**" inserted?  That makes
> it difficult to read.
>
> > *dh_installdirs        install -d debian/freeradi*
> >
> *us/var/tmp/freera**dius-server-3.0**.x-290316/debia**n/freeradius.di**rs:
> > 1:
> /var/tmp/freera**dius-server-3.0**.x-290316/debia**n/freeradius.di**rs:
> > usr/lib/freerad*
> > *ius: not found/var/tmp/freera**dius-server-3.0**.x-290316/debia*
> > *n/freeradius.di**rs: 2:
> /var/tmp/freera**dius-server-3.0**.x-290316/debia*
> > *n/freeradius.di**rs: var/log/freerad*
> > *ius: not founddh_installdirs: problem reading debian/freeradi*
>
>   That's... confusing.
>
> > The only changes I made were to remove execute permission from a lot of
> the
> > files in debian/, which seems to affect how the dh suite treats the
> files.
>
>   Uh... why?  I'm sure they think they have good reasons, but it's...
> weird.
>
> > ..and here's the change to the build tools which made this all break!
> >
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/?h=9.20120115&id=77b80367ad0cfdbb3d78242fda3127559e2df576
>
>   <sigh>  And no oversight or attempts at backwards compatibility.
>
> > If the FR folk want to fix this, they should either (a) fix the file
> > permissions under debian/ as mentioned above, or they should change
> > debian/compat to "8" instead of "9".....
>
>   I've made the files non-executable.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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