On 06/11/2018 18:09, Francesco Potortì wrote: >> >> 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? > > > ===File /etc/apt/sources.list=============================== > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian buster-proposed-updates main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > ============================================================ > > I built 2.13.0-5 by downloading: > > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/pool/main/f/fontconfig/fontconfig_2.13.0-5.debian.tar.xz > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/pool/main/f/fontconfig/fontconfig_2.13.0-5.dsc > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/pool/main/f/fontconfig/fontconfig_2.13.0.orig.tar.bz2 > > then using 'aptitude build-dep fontconfig' and then (not really sure) > using 'dpkg-buildpackage' > > At this point I saw that uuid-dev and docbook-utils were missing, I > installed them using 'aptitude install' and after that I uilt and > installed the package successfully
That's because `aptitude build-dep fontconfig` will install the build-deps for the package that is available to apt, i.e. most likely for the current version in sid (or testing) on your system. However you downloaded 2.13.0-5, which probably didn't match the build-deps you got from aptitude. Your scenario would have been alright had you gotten the sources from apt too, e.g.: apt-get source fontconfig apt-get build-dep fontconfig cd fontconfig-*; dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc But since you got a special version, you could have done something like: cd fontconfig-*; sudo apt-get build-dep ./ Emilio
