Document to install fakeroot and debhelper

sloretz commented 6 years ago

On bionic (edit: and xenial) without these packages I get the following tracebacks when calling scripts/ros_release_python

dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot not found, either install the fakeroot
package, specify a command with the -r option, or run this as root
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 29, in <module>
    license='BSD'
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/command/sdist_dsc.py", line 140, in run
    remove_expanded_source_dir=self.remove_expanded_source_dir,
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 1421, in build_dsc
    dpkg_genchanges(cwd=fullpath_repackaged_dirname)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 538, in dpkg_genchanges
    process_command(args,cwd=cwd)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 183, in process_command
    check_call(args, cwd=cwd)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 46, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode)
stdeb.util.CalledProcessError: 255

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 7.4.3)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 29, in <module>
    license='BSD'
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/command/sdist_dsc.py", line 140, in run
    remove_expanded_source_dir=self.remove_expanded_source_dir,
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 1421, in build_dsc
    dpkg_genchanges(cwd=fullpath_repackaged_dirname)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 538, in dpkg_genchanges
    process_command(args,cwd=cwd)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 183, in process_command
    check_call(args, cwd=cwd)
  File "/home/developer/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/stdeb/util.py", line 46, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode)
stdeb.util.CalledProcessError: 3

mikaelarguedas commented 6 years ago

Based on https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/catkin_pkg/issues/227 my understanding is that we should not release from bionic machines before further investigation. So maybe we should delay updating the instructions to document releasing from bionic

sloretz commented 6 years ago

Thanks. It looks like fakeroot and debhelper necessary on xenial too. I just saw the same tracebacks using a xenial docker image.

mikaelarguedas commented 6 years ago

:+1: sounds good then, thanks for giving it a shot on xenial

dirk-thomas commented 6 years ago

What is the status of this ticket?

mikaelarguedas commented 6 years ago

I think it just needed approval, fell off my radar

ros-infrastructure / ros_release_python

Document to install fakeroot and debhelper #23