Hi,

This package fails to build a source package after a successful build
(dpkg-buildpackage ; dpkg-buildpackage -S).

This is probably a clear violation of Debian Policy section 4.9 (clean target),
but this is filed as severity:minor for now, because a discussion on
debian-devel showed that we might want to revisit the requirement of a working
'clean' target.

More information about this class of issues, included common problems and
solutions, is available at
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS/SourceAfterBuild

Relevant part of the build log:
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/08/13/alpine_2.26+dfsg-1_unstable.log

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

owner 1043940 !
severity 1043940 normal
thanks

I'm going to fix this in the next upload, but first I'd like to see
what Eduardo thinks about it, as it seems an upstream bug to me.

Thanks.

Hello from Debian.

Some time ago, there was a QA effort by Lucas Nussbaum to ensure that
the clean target of Debian packages was correct. The alpine package
was affected, and this was the error:

These kind of errors are first and foremost a problem in the Debian
package, but in some cases, and I believe this is one of them, it may
indicate a problem in the upstream makefiles.

In this case one would wonder why

./configure; make; make clean

would leave those three Makefiles there:

web/src/Makefile
web/src/alpined.d/Makefile
web/src/pubcookie/Makefile

instead of they being removed, which is what one would naturally
expect from "make clean" when it's the case that those Makefiles
are generated from their Makefile.in templates.

Thanks.

Hello from Debian.

Some time ago, there was a QA effort by Lucas Nussbaum to ensure that
the clean target of Debian packages was correct. The alpine package
was affected, and this was the error:

These kind of errors are first and foremost a problem in the Debian
package, but in some cases, and I believe this is one of them, it may
indicate a problem in the upstream makefiles.

In this case one would wonder why

./configure; make; make clean

would leave those three Makefiles there:

web/src/Makefile
web/src/alpined.d/Makefile
web/src/pubcookie/Makefile

instead of they being removed, which is what one would naturally
expect from "make clean" when it's the case that those Makefiles
are generated from their Makefile.in templates.

Thanks.

Hi Santiago,

   Is there any reason why the make clean command should remove Makefiles.
To me the easier fix is not to build web alpine, just add '--without-tcl'
as one of the options of the configure script.

   Does this address this issue to your satisfaction.

So, if those Makefiles are created when building the program, then they are
expected to be removed by make clean.

That's the problem, we are already passing --without-tcl to the configure script.
Looks like make should not recurse into web/src when such option is used.
That way, no Makefiles created, no Makefiles to remove later.

Thanks.

Dear Santiago,

   it looks like the problem is in the packaging of the source code. There
are Makefiles distributed with Alpine in the web/ directory. That is
wrong, and it will be fixed. Thank you.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
alpine, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1043940@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> (supplier of updated alpine package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:30:00 +0100
Source: alpine
Architecture: source
Version: 2.26+dfsg-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Closes: 1043940 1053915
Changes:
 alpine (2.26+dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Fix clean target. Closes: #1043940.
   * Apply upstream patch to reflect the change from alpine.x10host.com
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     fix in version 2.26+dfsg-2. Closes: #1053915.
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