'texinfo' missing from Build-Depends

[Kócsó Balázs]

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04

After running 'dpkg-buildpackage' I got the following error message:

freeipmi/config/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found
WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
         any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
         You might want to install the Texinfo package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
         The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
         using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
         want to install GNU make:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
Makefile:429: recipe for target 'freeipmi-faq.info' failed

I add the 'texinfo' package, which provides the makeinfo, and it works well. Here is the diff:

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e8ca7f2..6789d5c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
  autotools-dev (>= 20100122.1~),
  dh-autoreconf,
  libgcrypt11-dev,
- chrpath
+ chrpath,
+ texinfo
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-freeipmi/pkg-freeipmi.git

I hope the diff enough to fix the problem.

Best regards,
Balazs

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Thanks for filing this bug in Ubuntu.

Looking at previous builds logs (like https://launchpadlibrarian.net/382624327/buildlog_ubuntu-bionic-amd64.freeipmi_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_BUILDING.txt.gz), or trying a build locally on a fresh 18.04 container, I don't see the error message you mention.

Did you make any other modifications to the package before starting the build?

I found this in config/missing:
...
    makeinfo*)
      echo "You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or"
      echo "any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual."
      echo "You might want to install the Texinfo package:"
...

Maybe that applies to your case?

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