'rear' FTBFS asciidoc command not found

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This is a feature for Ubuntu 16.10.

Recently, rear (Relax and Recover) is getting popular for OS image backup and we want to include it (as a package) in Ubuntu 16.10.

 From IBM point of view, there are a lot of customer which use Ubuntu, so it would be helpful for us if Ubuntu supports rear as well. It definitely introduces reducing the user's burden for OS backup.

http://relax-and-recover.org/

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[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

We were finally able to add the rear package into Debian, please sync:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rear.html

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Packages are automatically synced from debian.

src:rear is available in Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rear

However due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849303 it FTBFS on i386 and ppc64el, please fix that bug report with an upload to debian unstable.

For build failures in Ubuntu please see:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rear/1.19+dfsg-1

NB! Build-Depends-Indep are not installed, unless arch:all (amd64) packages are built. Either you need to configure arch-only build without documentation or move the asciidoc build-depends to just "Build-Depends" field.

Override can be done with something like this:
override_dh_auto_configure-arch:
    dh_auto_configure -- --build-no-docs

But I would rather just move asciidoc et.al. from Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends.

[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

Hi Dimitri,

I just fixed it and provided an NMU with delay=5. So, I hope it show up in Ubuntu after that.

Thank you,
Breno

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I think you do need to move all build-depends-indep to build-depends.... Now the build fails with:

> xmlto man rear.8.xml
> make[3]: xmlto: Command not found

To reproduce locally, you need to perform an arch-any build only, without building arch all packages. Like so:

# if you have not used sbuild before
$ mk-sbuild zesty

# Rebuild¸ arch-any packages only
$ pull-lp-source rear
$ sbuild --no-arch-all -d zesty rear_2.00+dfsg-1.dsc

[Frédéric Bonnard (frediz)]

Hi Dmitri,
the fix was in the pipe at the moment when you wrote this.
This should be fixed : https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rear
Sorry for that and thanks for taking time to explain,

F.