Probem in Packaging New Software Article

I can confirm this. Further more, replacing all instances with of 2.9 with 2.7 allows everything to work as expected again. So, this is a regression introduced in revision 445: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ubuntu-packaging-guide/trunk/revision/445

Are you saying I should download the file again and rename it to 2.7 then go through the tutorial again?

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Morgan Fraughton
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Are you saying I should download the file again and rename it to 2.7
> then go through the tutorial again?

No. It seems to be an issues with the 2.9 release of "hello." Until
just recently, the tutorial used the 2.7 release. I guess when it was
updated, no one actually tested it.

So, to successfully finish the tutorial you could just use the 2.7
release. instead of running:

wget -O hello-2.9.tar.gz "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.9.tar.gz"

run:

wget -O hello-2.7.tar.gz "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.7.tar.gz"

and do the same for any other command in the tutorial.

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thanks. I'll give it a shot

On 13-11-05 04:49 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Morgan Fraughton
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Are you saying I should download the file again and rename it to
>> 2.7 then go through the tutorial again?
>
> No. It seems to be an issues with the 2.9 release of "hello."
> Until just recently, the tutorial used the 2.7 release. I guess
> when it was updated, no one actually tested it.
>
> So, to successfully finish the tutorial you could just use the 2.7
> release. instead of running:
>
> wget -O hello-2.9.tar.gz
> "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.9.tar.gz"
>
> run:
>
> wget -O hello-2.7.tar.gz
> "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.7.tar.gz"
>
> and do the same for any other command in the tutorial.
>
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This is live on the web site, so setting Fix Released. The bug never made it into a released version of the package.

I am experiencing this same issue with hello-2.10 as described on http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html.

I can also verify that reverting to 2.7 resolves my issue. So whatever was broken in 2.9 is also seemingly broken in 2.10.

adi@adi-ubuntu:~/hello$ bzr builddeb -- -us -uc
Building using working tree
Building package in normal mode
Purging the build dir: /home/adi/build-area/hello-2.10
Looking for a way to retrieve the upstream tarball
Upstream tarball already exists in build directory, using that
Building the package in /home/adi/build-area/hello-2.10, using debuild -us -uc
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -ui
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package hello
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.10-0ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Verban Adrian <email address hidden>
 dpkg-source --before-build hello-2.10
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_auto_clean
 make -j4 -O distclean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/adi/build-area/hello-2.10'
There seems to be no Makefile in this directory.
You must run ./configure before running 'make'.
GNUmakefile:106: recipe for target 'abort-due-to-no-makefile' failed
make[1]: *** [abort-due-to-no-makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/adi/build-area/hello-2.10'
dh_auto_clean: make -j4 -O distclean returned exit code 2
debian/rules:18: recipe for target 'clean' failed
make: *** [clean] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1152:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -ui failed
bzr: ERROR: The build failed.

Error in 2019.

The issue is that dh_auto_clean calls for a "make -j4 distclean" but the Makefile is not generated by "configure" yet.

A workaround is to add

  override_dh_auto_clean:

in your debian/rules file.

Shouldn't the tutorial be set back to install the source for 2.7 since it's broken for 2.10?

yes it is broken for 2.10. So status of this issue should be changed from "Fixed released" to something else like "New". Or we should open a new issue.
For now the workaround mentioned by Benjamin Allot (ballot) is working for 2.10