On 06/11/2018 17:39, Francesco Potortì wrote: >> >> Le 6/11/18 à 16:57, Francesco Potortì a écrit : >>>>> I unistalled the previously installed build dependencies, and then asked >>>>> aptitude to reinstall them but uuid-dev and docbook-utils were not >>>>> installed. >>>> I really cannot explain that because both uuid-dev and docbook-utils are >>>> explicitly listed in the Build-Depends of the package currently in >>>> unstable. >>>> >>>> What is apt-cache showsrc fontconfig showing? >>> Here it is. I am using testing, not unstable. >>> >>> Please note that starting tomorrow I will not be able to answer queries >>> until next Wednesday, as I will be travelling. I will be able to answer >>> simple queries today. >>> >>> >>> Package: fontconfig >>> Binary: fontconfig, fontconfig-config, fontconfig-udeb, libfontconfig1-dev, >>> libfontconfig1, libfontconfig1-dbg >>> Version: 2.11.0-6.7 >>> Maintainer: Keith Packard <kei...@debian.org> >>> Uploaders: Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> >>> Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.93), dh-autoreconf, debhelper (>= 9), >>> libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.1.7), libexpat1-dev, pkg-config, gperf, po-debconf >> >> That's the issue, you somehow have the definition of the source package >>from stable and apt is using this. > > Mh, no, right now I am running 2.13.0-5 which I compiled myself because > of the fontconfig bug interacting with fontconfig. Back then, when I > compiled it from source, I had the testing version installed, which was > fontconfig 2.13.1-1. > >> 1) Do you have the repository of stable defined in your sources? >> apt-cache showsrc is showing you way too much packages and even versions >> (like 2.12.6-0.1) that are not in the archive anymore, this might be a >> configuration issue on your side. > > Uh. Thanks, I'll need investigating that, if I ever find the time. I > am always confused by those options. Clearly I have old cruft deposited > there, and I do notknow how to remove it, I was supposing it is done > automatically... > >> 2) This might also be a bug in apt as it's taking the build-dependency >> list from stable and not from unstable. > >> Anyway this is not a bug in fontconfig > > I see. Thanks for your work at maintaining fontconfig. > > > By the way, I have this configuration, but I do not see how it can cause > old packages to be retrieved...
What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list? How did you download the fontconfig sources, and how did you install the build-deps? Emilio
