Control: tag -1 + confirmed pending Hi Helmut,
On 2015-07-22 20:46, Helmut Grohne wrote: > When building libcap2 while gperf is installed, the package FTBFS. The > upstream source detects the availability of gperf and rebuilds a file. > The slightly different contents lateron cause a symbol error due to > added symbols, because the package is requesting symbol check level 4. > > The immediate solution is to add Build-Conflicts: gperf. This is what > the attached patch implements. > > Of course a better solution would be to add gperf to Build-Depends and > actually building libcap2 from source. I actually encountered this myself while addressing #782745, but didn't get around to fixing it until now. I've added a Build-Depends for gperf. This required a minor patch to hide a symbol that was unnecessarily being exported, which caused the FTBFS you encountered. Regards, Christian
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