[Monotone-debian] Bug#888612: monotone: FTBFS with debhelper/11.1 due to empty build target

[Niels Thykier]

Source: monotone
Version: 1.1-9
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

Hi,

The monotone package FTBFS with debhelper/11.1 as it has an
empty build target.  This is caused by debhelper had a bug in its
handling of "explicitly defined rules targets" that has now been
fixed.

Previously, this happened to work because dpkg-buildpackage would
invoke "debian/rules build" (which would be a no-op) followed by
"fakeroot debian/rules binary".  During the binary target, dh's
suboptimal handling would run the build commands.


In the given case, monotone has an empty "build"-target to work around
rather old Debian practises.  Any supported version of Debian no
longer need these work arounds (as far as I remember), so I have
included a patch to remove said work arounds.


More details can be found in:
 * #886901 comment #35
 * #887688 comment #37
 * #880840

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
~Niels

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