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/liferea_1.14.4-3_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.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
liferea, 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 1046450@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> (supplier of updated liferea package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:34:07 +0200
Source: liferea
Architecture: source
Version: 1.15.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Changed-By: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Closes: 1046450
Changes:
 liferea (1.15.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Ignore test failure on mips64el, s390x and ppc64 for now
   * Add more files to the clean target (Closes: #1046450)
   * Move metainfo data back to the liferea package (for AppStream)
   * Fix d/copyright for plugins
   * lintian: override privacy-breach-generic as it's opt-in
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Hi Santiago,

Because control messages typically (your case below is a very good
exception) contain too little information I filter them away. If you
have a message, you should cc <package>@packages.debian.org in my
opinion. I completely missed that you reopened this bug report. Given
that there were 3 years between closing and reopening, it's also very
well possible that it's a *new* bug. I think it's safer to file a *new*
report in cases like this, unless you show that the upload closing the
bug was flawed (I don't think that's worth the effort, a new bug just
works fine).

Paul

tags 1046450 patch
severity 1046450 normal
thanks
decided to reopen instead of filing new bugs:

- dpkg-source showed the extra files using the directory as a prefix,
some people just copied and pasted that into debian/clean and called
it a day, without realizing that the bug was still there.

- dpkg-source very often did not show all the problems but only some
of them. As a result, just copying and pasting the files into
debian/clean (this time removing the extra prefix) might still keep
the issue unfixed.

The above two items are #1126558 and #1126665 (which I mentioned in
the bug reopening message). Because of those two bugs, the probability
that the bug was closed improperly was quite high.

- Also: I did not like at all the idea of filing a lot of new bugs for this,
at least at such point.

For all the above reasons I decided to reopen the old bugs.

But as I said, this was a one-time thing. Now that dpkg-source has
been fixed, if I ever decide to report a lot of bugs, they would be
certainly new bugs.

(For the currently open bugs, I am monitoring them weekly, and I usually
know well enough when they are closed improperly or not. Since this happen
sparsely, I can also offer a patch most of the time when I reopen them).


BTW: This is the way this package fails currently:

dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are:
 js/item.xml
 js/node.xml

and I believe the attached patch should fix the issue
(but please double-check).

Thanks.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
liferea, 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 1046450@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> (supplier of updated liferea package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:53:36 +0200
Source: liferea
Architecture: source
Version: 1.16.10+ds-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Commons <liferea@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Closes: 1046450
Changes:
 liferea (1.16.10+ds-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Santiago Vila ]
   * Improve clean target (Closes: #1046450)
 .
   [ Paul Gevers ]
   * tests: ignore failure on riscv64 and make them fatal again on ppc64*
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