Need an override on install target with "dh --with python2"

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli]

As you can see here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~compiz/compizconfig-python/ubuntu/annotate/head:/debian/rules

I need an override on dh_auto_build and dh_auto_install to make that package build. If I don't use it, I get:
dh binary --with python2
   dh_testroot
   dh_prep
 rm -f debian/python-compizconfig.substvars
 rm -f debian/python-compizconfig.*.debhelper
 rm -rf debian/python-compizconfig/
   dh_installdirs
 install -d debian/python-compizconfig
   dh_auto_install
 make -j1 install DESTDIR=/home/didrocks/work/compiz/compiz-config-python/build-area/compizconfig-python-0.9.2.1/debian/python-compizconfig
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/didrocks/work/compiz/compiz-config-python/build-area/compizconfig-python-0.9.2.1 »
{'os2_home': {'purelib': '$usersite', 'headers': '$userbase/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$userbase/bin', 'data': '$userbase', 'platlib': '$usersite'}, 'nt_user': {'purelib': '$usersite', 'headers': '$userbase/Python$py_version_nodot/Include/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$userbase/Scripts', 'data': '$userbase', 'platlib': '$usersite'}, 'os2': {'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages'}, 'deb_system': {'purelib': '$base/lib/python$py_version_short/dist-packages', 'headers': '$base/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/bin', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$platbase/lib/python$py_version_short/dist-packages'}, 'mac': {'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages'}, 'unix_prefix': {'purelib': '$base/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages', 'headers': '$base/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/bin', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$platbase/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages'}, 'mac_user': {'purelib': '$usersite', 'headers': '$userbase/$py_version_short/include/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$userbase/bin', 'data': '$userbase', 'platlib': '$usersite'}, 'unix_local': {'purelib': '$base/local/lib/python$py_version_short/dist-packages', 'headers': '$base/local/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/local/bin', 'data': '$base/local', 'platlib': '$platbase/local/lib/python$py_version_short/dist-packages'}, 'nt': {'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages', 'headers': '$base/Include/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/Scripts', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages'}, 'unix_home': {'purelib': '$base/lib/python', 'headers': '$base/include/python/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$base/bin', 'data': '$base', 'platlib': '$base/lib/python'}, 'unix_user': {'purelib': '$usersite', 'headers': '$userbase/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name', 'scripts': '$userbase/bin', 'data': '$userbase', 'platlib': '$usersite'}}
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --prefix not recognized
make[1]: *** [all] Erreur 1
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/didrocks/work/compiz/compiz-config-python/build-area/compizconfig-python-0.9.2.1 »
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install DESTDIR=/home/didrocks/work/compiz/compiz-config-python/build-area/compizconfig-python-0.9.2.1/debian/python-compizconfig returned exit code 2
make: *** [binary] Erreur 29
dpkg-buildpackage: erreur: fakeroot debian/rules binary a produit une erreur de sortie de type 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1335:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -i -I failed
bzr: ERROR: The build failed.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On a local chroot:

Log for successful build of compizconfig-python_0.9.2.1-0ubuntu1 on amd64 (dist=natty)

Is this bug report still valid?

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

What is your debian/rules? Did you try removing the override I added?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

More info:

It's true that 'python setup.py build' does not accept the --prefix argument, so the 'all:' rule in the top level Makefile is bogus. But actually, the entire Makefile is unnecessary. dh_python2 should just Do The Right Thing with the existing setup.py. See the attached branch, which successfully builds for me, but is probably not entire right. It removes the top level Makefile, but in order to do that, I had to pass --source-option=--include-removal to the dpkg-buildpackage call. However, in order to do *that* I had to change the source format to 3.0 (quilt). (source format 1 does not accept that option.)

My recommendation would be to remove the top level Makefile entirely and just let dh_python2 do its thing. This will also let you simplify debian/rules. See the linked branch for reference, or let me know and I'll put together a for-real branch for review.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Oh, if you want me to put together the branch, please assign the bug to me.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Never mind the above. With Colin's help I have a fix. Will push a branch and submit a merge proposal momentarily.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compizconfig-python - 0.9.2.1-0ubuntu2

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compizconfig-python (0.9.2.1-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Simplify, and force the buildsystem to
    python_distutils so that the Makefile is ignored. It isn't
    correct because 'python setup.py build' does not accept the
    --prefix option, and it isn't needed anyway because dh_python2
    does the right thing. (LP: #687419)
 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:19:16 -0500