[Bug 1691078] Re: cvs FTBFS in artful: dpkg-deb: error: invalid compressor parameters: unknown compression strategy

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This bug was fixed in the package debhelper - 10.2.5ubuntu3

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debhelper (10.2.5ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium

  * Restore maintainer ability to override ddeb compression (LP:
#1691078)

 -- Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 17 May 2017 10:03:45 -0600

** Changed in: debhelper (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  cvs FTBFS in artful: dpkg-deb: error: invalid compressor parameters:
  unknown compression strategy

Status in cvs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  cvs package fails to build in Artful:

  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/317615278/buildlog_ubuntu-artful-
  amd64.cvs_2%3A1.12.13+real-23_BUILDING.txt.gz :

  ...
  dh_shlibdeps
  dh_gencontrol
  dh_md5sums
  dh_builddeb -- -Zgzip -z9
  INFO: pkgstriptranslations version 131
  pkgstriptranslations: processing cvs-dbgsym (in debian/.debhelper/cvs/dbgsym-root); do_strip: 1, oemstrip: 
  pkgstriptranslations: cvs-dbgsym does not contain translations, skipping
  pkgstriptranslations: no translation files, not creating tarball
  pkgmaintainermangler: Maintainer field overridden to "Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>"
  pkgstripfiles: processing control file: debian/.debhelper/cvs/dbgsym-root/DEBIAN/control, package cvs-dbgsym, directory debian/.debhelper/cvs/dbgsym-root
  pkgstripfiles: Running PNG optimization (using 4 cpus) for package cvs-dbgsym ...
  pkgstripfiles: No PNG files.
  dpkg-deb: error: invalid compressor parameters: unknown compression strategy

  Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
  Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages.
  dh_builddeb.pkgbinarymangler: dpkg-deb -z1 -Zxz -Sextreme -Zgzip -z9 --build debian/.debhelper/cvs/dbgsym-root debian/.debhelper/scratch-space/build-cvs returned exit code 2
   dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary
  dpkg-genbuildinfo: error: cannot fstat file ../cvs-dbgsym_1.12.13+real-23_amd64.ddeb: No such file or directory
  dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=binary gave error exit status 2
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  Build finished at 20170429-2353
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