Failing to build on Debian Testing

[Evereve]

[rvm]

Does it work if you replace
dh_builddeb -- -Z lzma
with
dh_builddeb -- -Z xz
in debian-rvm/rules?

[Evereve]

Thanks! It worked!

I didn't think the problem was in the compression method but in the diversions!

[stevo]

Debian Jessie and newer, plus equivalent Ubuntu releases, now use xz compression as default, and Debian Wheezy supports the xz compression if specified. It's probably a good idea just to drop that flag altogether, or to change it to xz.

[Nighyiun]

If possible, we would like more information on this issue.

[stevo]

Well, what do you need to know?

I've got SMTube and SMPlayer packages building in my own Jessie and Stretch OBS repo:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... t/smplayer

Since I'm l̶a̶z̶y̶ energy-efficient, I managed to add a little bit to the packages so they automatically build with qt 4 on Jessie, but qt 5 on Stretch, to take advantage of the HDPI support there. You can take a look at the sources by clicking on the "Debian_9.0" link on the right, then the "go to download repository" link, which goes to the repo where you can directly download the source files and finished packages.

Maybe rvm would like to modernize his builds to the current preferred "debhelper" that I've copied from Debian...his current method is being deprecated.

[rvm]

debian-rvm/rules already uses dh_builddeb -- -Z xz

[stevo]