Source: util-linux Version: 2.27-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: help It would be nice if we could revert the changes made in 2.27-2 and 2.27-3 and again build the udebs dynamically.
The problem (originally reported in http://bugs.debian.org/798347 ) is that both fdisk and sfdisk has since v2.27 (upstream release) picked up dependencies on libtinfo5 (from src:ncurses) via libtcolors.la, which in turn caused fdisk-udeb to depend on tinfo deb (which there is no udeb for). See: disk-utils/Makemodule.am where libtcolors.la is added to fdisk_LDADD etc. lib/Makemodule.am for libtcolors_la_SOURCES lib/colors.c which contains #ifdef HAVE_LIBTINFO configure.ac which has AC_ARG_WITH([tinfo], AS_HELP_STRING([--without-tinfo], ... In theory I guess we should be able to do a build which just disables tinfo via configure.... At the same time we want tinfo enabled for the normal .deb builds.... Doing multi-flavor builds with dh is a hassle. Switching over to CDBS only for this seems like much work for little win. Maybe there's some simple hack to rebuild just fdisk and sfdisk --without-tinfo, but special considerations needs to be taken to make sure whatever solution we end up with is dead simple to maintain. In my opinion it's not worth adding maintenance burden to solve this issue.... Hopefully we'll come up with something easy soon but filing this bug report as a reminder. An alternative to all of the above is to convince src:ncurses maintainers to add a tinfo udeb (but configurable terminal colors support is probably something we'd like to see disabled in the udeb build anyway).... -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2 ii libblkid1 2.27-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libfdisk1 2.27-1 ii libmount1 2.27-1 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsmartcols1 2.27-1 ii libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u2 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libuuid1 2.27-1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.2 ii tzdata 2015g-0+deb8u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii dosfstools 3.0.27-1 pn kbd | console-tools <none> ii util-linux-locales 2.25.2-6 -- debconf information excluded
