Unable to build hsqldb 1.8.0.10-12 directly from Debian

[James Page]

Both local sbuild and the Launchpad buildd setup is unable to build hsqldb 1.8.0.10-12 from Debian unstable/testing.

The package as one binary package that targets kfreebsd-* architectures only; sbuild reports this error when checking architectures:

: i386 not in arch list or does not match any arch wildcards: all kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 -- skipping

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/107897874/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-i386.hsqldb_1.8.0.10-12~ubuntu12.10.1~ppa1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

I think the issue is in sbuild - pbuilder appears to be quite happy with this combination.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

this sounds very similar to bug 917708
Why project launchpad-buildd and not project launchpad?
Isn't the latter one used exclusively nowadays? Maybe I am wrong...

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

The upload processing is part of launchpad, the building is in a separate project (launchpad-buildd). Also, it seems like the correct behavior is to ignore any arch that we don't have as active in the series if there are arch: all packages in debian/control.

[James Page (james-page)]

This worked for me locally in sbuild:

--- Build.pm.orig 2012-06-18 15:20:09.859466543 +0100
+++ Build.pm 2012-06-18 19:29:45.653621053 +0100
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@
      }
  }
  if ($dscarchs ne "any" && !($valid_arch) &&
- !($dscarchs eq "all" && $self->get_conf('BUILD_ARCH_ALL')) ) {
+ !($dscarchs =~ /all/ && $self->get_conf('BUILD_ARCH_ALL')) ) {
      my $msg = "$dsc: $arch not in arch list or does not match any arch wildcards: $dscarchs -- skipping\n";
      $self->log($msg);
      Sbuild::Exception::Build->throw(error => "$dsc: $arch not in arch list or does not match any arch wildcards: $dscarchs -- skipping",

Validating that 'all' is present (rather than ==) in the list of archs in the dsc and that sbuild is doing the -A target corrects the behaviour (I think).