debian/rules override_dh_gencontrol-indep
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/buildd/cpl-plugin-amber-4.3.3+dfsg'
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which is not NFS-safe
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package cpl-plugin-amber-doc: unused substitution variable ${sphinxdoc:Depends}
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which is not NFS-safe
dh_gencontrol debug symbol wrapper: all non-arch-all packages for this build platform amd64: cpl-plugin-amber
dh_gencontrol debug symbol wrapper: packages to act on: cpl-plugin-amber
dh_gencontrol debug symbol wrapper: ignored packages:
dh_gencontrol debug symbol wrapper: processing package cpl-plugin-amber (pkgdir debian/cpl-plugin-amber, ddeb package dir debian/cpl-plugin-amber-dbgsym)
grep: debian/cpl-plugin-amber/DEBIAN/control: No such file or directory
dh_gencontrol debug symbol wrapper: building cpl-plugin-amber-dbgsym__amd64.ddeb
dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 'debian/cpl-plugin-amber-dbgsym/DEBIAN/control' near line 3 package 'cpl-plugin-amber-dbgsym':
error in 'Version' field string '': version string is empty
debian/rules:75: recipe for target 'override_dh_gencontrol-indep' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_gencontrol-indep] Error 2
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/205906374/buildlog_ubuntu-wily-amd64.cpl-plugin-amber_4.3.3%2Bdfsg-2_BUILDING.txt.gz
The other cpl-plugin-* have the same problem.
This is a packaging bug in cpl-plugin-*:
override_
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If you want to do that (-indep), you also have to call dh_gencontrol with -i.
Anyway, I'll add a workaround into p-c-d.