[Bug 2054741] Re: dpkg-buildpackage ignores DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

[Luca Boccassi]

The autopkgtest failures are unrelated, one is some patch fuzz:

15200s ====== Unapplying the patch ======
15200s patching file solenv/gbuild/UITest.mk
15200s Hunk #1 succeeded at 34 with fuzz 1.
15200s Hunk #2 succeeded at 71 with fuzz 2 (offset 6 lines).
15200s Hunk #3 succeeded at 92 (offset -3 lines).
15200s patching file solenv/gbuild/Module.mk
15200s Hunk #1 succeeded at 212 (offset 11 lines).
15200s Hunk #2 succeeded at 392 (offset 20 lines).
15200s Hunk #3 succeeded at 504 (offset 25 lines).
15200s it failed
15200s autopkgtest [01:36:42]: test uicheck-sw: -----------------------]
15201s autopkgtest [01:36:43]: test uicheck-sw:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
15201s uicheck-sw           FAIL non-zero exit status 2

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-
jammy/jammy/ppc64el/libr/libreoffice/20240229_025213_7395c@/log.gz

and the other one is due to the recent usr-merge changes in base-files
breaking debootstrap:

205s tar: ./bin: Cannot create symlink to 'usr/bin': File exists
205s tar: ./lib: Cannot create symlink to 'usr/lib': File exists
205s tar: ./sbin: Cannot create symlink to 'usr/sbin': File exists

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-
jammy/jammy/arm64/p/pbuilder/20240229_090138_97dd0@/log.gz

Could it be hinted to migrate, please?

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Title:
  dpkg-buildpackage ignores DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in dpkg source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in dpkg source package in Mantic:
  Fix Committed
Status in dpkg source package in Noble:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  DEB_BUILD_PROFILES= can be used in Debian to specify a build profile
  to use with dpkg-buildpackage. We want to use it in the systemd
  project to build the upstream packages for the Ubuntu autopkgtest
  cloud CI on Github. But in the Ubuntu's fork of dpkg,
  DEB_BUILD_PROFILES's value is ignored and unconditionally swapped with
  'noudeb'. This makes it impossible to use package-specific profiles,
  and it's a regression w.r.t Debian.

  [Fix]

  Backport patch from Noble that fixes the issue: https://code.launchpad.net/~bluca/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+git/dpkg/+merge/461136
  and takes into account if the environment variable is set when reading the profile

  [Test]

  To reproduce it, simply print the content of DEB_BUILD_PROFILES in
  d/rules in any package and build with DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=foo dpkg-
  buildpackage. Before the fix, whatever is passed via the env var is
  ignored. After the fix, it will be respected.

  [Regression Potential]

  dpkg-buildpackage is used to build all packages, so in case of
  unforeseen issues other packages could potentially fail to build. A
  unit test exercising this change is included in the patch to minimize
  potential for regressions.

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