PPA: Moka icons won't build on Artful and newer

[wfwf1997]

The package from PPA suffers from building failure on Artful and newer version of Ubuntu. According to the build log, meson is missing for building them. Is it possible to add meson to build dependencies to make auto build work again?

[snwh]

It doesn’t need meson to build the packages and the packaging instructions don’t require them. I don’t know why the build server is trying that.

[wfwf1997]

The project has changed from autotools to meson as build system, so meson becomes a build dependency. In the newer version of debhelper, it can detect meson as build system and then auto configure it. However, debhelper provided in Xenial is an older version which lacks support in meson. That is why packages in old version of Ubuntu seems to be built successfully. But the .deb generated takes only several KiBs, which means it is not properly packaged as well.
I think either add meson to build dependencies or manually override dh_install target can solve the problem.

[snwh]

Exactly, I don’t need meson to build anything. Can I override that in debhelper?

[wfwf1997]

Make rules in debian folder like this and everything got solved:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

#export DH_VERBOSE = 1
%:
        dh $@

override_dh_auto_configure:

override_dh_missing:
        dh_missing --fail-missing

This makes dh_auto_configure do nothing. And original dh_install can put every icon just in place.

[snwh]

Ahhhh, that's the bit I don't have in the rules. I keep the packaging code on launchpad since I don't wanna pollute the main repo: https://code.launchpad.net/~moka/moka-icon-theme/+git/packaging/+ref/master

[wfwf1997]

Remember to remove the whole override_dh_install section or it will do nothing when installing.

[snwh]

I have an install file though

[wfwf1997]

Problem is that you also overrode dh_install behavior by using override_dh_install, but install file is actually handled by the original dh_install script. So you need to remove this section or it would put nothing to the package.

[snwh]

I wasn't having problems with the install process however

[wfwf1997]

It is built successfully. But just have a look at the buildlog, it contains no icons at all:

moka-icon-theme_5.4.518-201806241606~daily~ubuntu18.10.1_all.deb
----------------------------------------------------------------

 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 2076 bytes: control archive=828 bytes.
     399 bytes,    12 lines      control              
     158 bytes,     2 lines      md5sums              
     298 bytes,    19 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
      44 bytes,     0 lines   *  prerm                
 Package: moka-icon-theme
 Version: 5.4.518-201806241606~daily~ubuntu18.10.1
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Sam Hewitt <sam@snwh.org>
 Installed-Size: 11
 Depends: faba-icon-theme
 Section: gnome
 Priority: optional
 Homepage: https://github.com/snwh/moka-icon-theme
 Description: Moka Icon Theme
  Moka is a stylized Tango-esque Linux desktop icon set.
  They are designed to be clear, simple and consistent.

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/doc/moka-icon-theme/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       311 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/doc/moka-icon-theme/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       682 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/doc/moka-icon-theme/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-06-24 16:11 ./usr/share/icons/

[snwh]

:joy:

[snwh]

Does anyone enjoy debian packaging??

[wfwf1997]

Actually I was an Arch Linuxer and also enjoy using Fedora. The packaging system of Debian is the most complex among the three. In Arch Linux you just need a PKGBUILD and in Fedora/RHEL you need a .spec, but in Debian, too many things to deal with. Ahhh, so annoying.

[snwh]

@wfwf1997 I know, I used to do both of those as well for this project and related projects and they were so much easier to deal with.

[snwh]

Alright! that buildlog looks right now, thanks for your help I was having the same problem across all my icon sets.

[snwh]

Things seem to be working. Heck that would have been a simple fix had I found it, online documentation on debian packaging is horrible.