building deb package fails w/ debuild

[laur89]

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[x] Bug
[ ] Feature Request
[ ] Documentation Request
[ ] Other (Please describe in detail)

Current Behavior

Building deb package using debuild after meson (actually unlikely it's the fault of a build tool change, only speculating here) was introduced fails on debian, see this gist for full log.
Tail end of the error:

make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/i3'
dh_installchangelogs RELEASE-NOTES-*
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/i3'
   dh_systemd_enable -O--buildsystem=meson
   dh_installinit -O--buildsystem=meson
   dh_systemd_start -O--buildsystem=meson
   dh_perl -O--buildsystem=meson
   dh_link -O--buildsystem=meson
   dh_installwm -O--buildsystem=meson
dh_installwm: error: no manpage found (creating an x-window-manager alternative requires a slave symlink for the manpage)
make: *** [debian/rules:30: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -b failed

Expected Behavior

Expecting running debuild -us -uc -b to produce a valid deb package, as used to be the case some months ago.

Reproduction Instructions

• Clone the i3 repo
• navigate to the cloned dir
• make sure all the build deps are installed
• run debuild -us -uc -b

Environment

i3 ver: 51b05835

- Linux Distribution & Version:
Linux WH5005264 5.6.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.6.14-1 (2020-05-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Debian testing (bullseye)

Bonus question:

How to modify the debian/rules file to configure for proper release build? Prior to meson, I applied this patch, ie adding --disable-sanitizers flag.
How to properly do this with meson? Would this be correct (ie adding --buildtype=release -Db_sanitize=none flags)?

[i3bot]

I don’t see a link to logs.i3wm.org. Did you follow https://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html? (In case you actually provided a link to a logfile, please ignore me.)

[i3bot]

I don’t see a version number. Could you please copy & paste the output of i3 --version into this issue?

[idnsunset]

Got the exactly same issue with dpkg-buildpackage command. I was just trying to build from the latest next branch, no changes were done to the debian/rules file, please advice how to get the build work?

[stapelberg]

See #4235 for the fix.

[laur89]

Thanks, will give it a go!
Regarding the other Q, are these flags the way to go for disabling sanitizers in meson for release build?: --buildtype=release -Db_sanitize=none

[stapelberg]

are these flags the way to go for disabling sanitizers in meson for release build?: --buildtype=release -Db_sanitize=none

looks right to me, yeah