[mythtv-users] errors on build of mythtv v34 Debain 12 packages after recent updates

[David Hampton]

On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 06:35 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
> I've been rebuilding the packages of Mythtv master for Debian 12
> after I saw Ubuntu  22.04 mythtv packages change.
> 
> That worked yesterday morning, but today after some cmake updates I
> get errors pretty close to the beginning  of the build.  I'm using
> the wiki method for building the Debian packages.
> 
> here's the console log
> 
> #build the tarball
> tar czf
> /home/jim/build/packaging/deb/mythtv/../mythtv_34.0"~"master.20240208
> .93e52a62.orig.tar.gz --exclu
> de-vcs --exclude .pc --exclude-tag-all mythtv.make *
> libdistro-info-perl is not installed, Debian release names are not
> known.
> libdistro-info-perl is not installed, Ubuntu release names are not
> known.
> dch warning: Unable to determine Debian's backport distributions.
> dch warning: Recognised distributions are:  
> experimental, unstable, testing, stable, oldstable, oldoldstable,
> {trixie,bookworm,bullseye,buster}-proposed-updates,
> {testing,stable,oldstable,oldoldstable}-proposed-updates,
> {trixie,bookworm,bullseye,buster}-security,
> {testing,stable,oldstable,oldoldstable}}-security and UNRELEASED.
> Using your request anyway.
> Testing all patches before building the packages
> Applying patch debian/patches/default_directories
> Applying patch debian/patches/bindings_install_paths.patch
> Applying patch debian/patches/default_theme.patch
> Now at patch debian/patches/default_theme.patch
> Removing patch debian/patches/default_theme.patch
> Removing patch debian/patches/bindings_install_paths.patch
> Removing patch debian/patches/default_directories
> No patches applied
> Building the packages
>  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -i -I.git
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package mythtv
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version
> 2:34.0~master.20240208.93e52a62-0ubuntu0
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution faye
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by jim <jim at lmde6>
>  dpkg-source -i -I.git --before-build .
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
> dpkg-source: info: using options from mythtv/debian/source/options: -
> -extend-diff-ignore=.github|.dockerig
> nore|.clang-tidy|.clazy
> dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
> dpkg-source: info: applying default_directories
> dpkg-source: info: applying bindings_install_paths.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying default_theme.patch
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh clean --parallel --with python3
>    debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/mythtv'
> [ -f mythtv/config.mak ] && /usr/bin/make -C mythtv distclean || true
> [ -f mythplugins/config.pro ] && /usr/bin/make -C mythplugins
> distclean || true
> [ -f mythtv/VERSION.old ] && mv mythtv/VERSION.old mythtv/VERSION ||
> true
> dh_auto_clean
> debconf-updatepo
> rm -rf /home/jim/build/packaging/deb/mythtv/debian/home
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/mythtv'
>    dh_clean
>  dpkg-source -i -I.git -b .
> dpkg-source: info: using options from mythtv/debian/source/options: -
> -extend-diff-ignore=.github|.dockerig
> nore|.clang-tidy|.clazy
> dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building mythtv using existing
> ./mythtv_34.0~master.20240208.93e52a62.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
> dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are:
>  mythtv/.cmake-format.py
>  mythtv/.cppcheck-includes
>  mythtv/.cppcheck-suppress

Those are new files I added last night.  They have nothing to do with
actually building the code; they're for tools that process the source
directory.  I don't know anything about the debian build process and
why it would choke on them.

David