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/subversion_1.14.2-4_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.

Hello,

Bug #1046849 in subversion reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/jamessan/subversion/-/commit/9cdf8614ecf927888389faad025e4051d42fa269
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remove BUILD directory and other detritus during clean

Closes: #1046849
Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
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Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1046849

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
subversion, 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 1046849@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> (supplier of updated subversion package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:34:37 -0400
Source: subversion
Architecture: source
Version: 1.14.2-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Changed-By: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Closes: 1031229 1046849 1055242
Changes:
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 .
   * Add future=+lfs build options to ensure use of 64-bit filesystem APIs
   * Add commented example for SVNListParentPath in dav_svn.conf
     (Closes: #1031229)
   * Remove BUILD directory and other detritus during clean (Closes: #1046849)
   * Backport upstream patch to fix missing version in pkg-config files
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Control: notfound -1 1.14.5-3

Just because something shows the same symptom, does not mean it is the
same root cause. Rather than unarchiving and marking old bugs as
"fixed", it would have been better, IMO, to file new bugs.

That also wouldn't have left your link to the build logs as part of a
comment in a control@ email, where it's harder to find. I only saw it
when digging up this email to reply to it.

At least as far as this subversion bug is considered, it is indeed a
different issue from before, so I'm removing the "found" annotation.

Cheers,

We don't really know if if it's a different issue or not.

I wrote this to Michael Tokarev in Bug #1048754 who complained
in a similar way, and I believe my reply does apply here as well:

----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi. The underlying problem here is that dpkg-source does not report
all the errors:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1126665

So, yes, it may be the case that some packages now fail for a "different" reason.

But it can also be the case that the fix was incomplete because the
original report was incomplete as well (because of the above bug).

I've seen this to happen quite often when people fix the thing that
they see in the build log but do not bother to try again.

Since I don't have an easy way to determine if the fix that was
implemented at the time was correct or not, I decided to reopen
the bug when I was able to determine that it currently fails.

I agree that this may not be perfect, but I believe it was better
than the all the other alternatives.

Thanks.

that the package does not build source after a binary build.

I'm having difficulty to understand why some people seem to be upset
about this.

If a package written in C FTBFS with gcc-15, and it has foo.c and
bar.c, both of which requiring a fix, and the maintainer fixes foo.c
only (as only foo.c appears in the build log) would you say that it's
wrong to reopen because now it fails for a "different" reason? (bar.c)

BTW: I'm building subversion by adding this single file to debian/clean

subversion/tests/cmdline/.davautocheck.sh.stop

and will let you know how it goes when it finish, but according to the
dpkg-dev bug which I quoted before, this may or may not be enough to
fix the bug ("the bug" = fails to build source after binary build).

Thanks.

I didn't say you're reporting the root cause, but re-opening the same
bug implies that it is the same root cause.

Separate issues should be handled by separate bugs. I'm not expecting
you to determine if the root cause is the same. That's for me to do and
and, if so, merge the new bug into the existing one.

Yes.

I'm seeing a failure completely unrelated to that, so I doubt it will
be enough.

Cheers,

Well, I think nobody would do that.

If a package FTBFS with gcc-15, everybody would understand that the
bug is only fixed when the package builds again with gcc-15, not when
only the first foo.c is fixed.

Well, my build succeeded after adding the above line. What's the
failure you see on your end?

Thanks.

Hi. The attached patch works for me.

(the file is not in the original source and it's created as new,
therefore I guess it belongs to the first section of debian/clean,
before the comment).

Would you please check if it fixes the current issue?

(I would prefer not to report new bugs for now).

Thanks.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
subversion, 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 1046849@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> (supplier of updated subversion package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:20:31 -0500
Source: subversion
Architecture: source
Version: 1.14.5-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Changed-By: James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
Closes: 1046849
Changes:
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 .
   * Fix "build source after successful build" (Closes: #1046849)
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