Hi Mike,
Quoting Mike Gabriel (2019-04-01 13:04:14)
> >> the members of the Freexian Extended LTS team need to be able to build
> >> packages for wheezy.
> >>
> >> I have recently upgraded my notebook to Debian 10 (pre) and from then
> >> on it failed building packages for wheezy-lts via sbuild.
> >>
> >> ```
> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >> | Install package build dependencies
> >> |
> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >>
> >>
> >> Setup apt archive
> >> -----------------
> >>
> >> Merged Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libpam0g-dev, libselinux1-dev,
> >> libaudit-dev, build-essential, fakeroot
> >> Filtered Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libpam0g-dev,
> >> libselinux1-dev, libaudit-dev, build-essential, fakeroot
> >> dpkg-deb: building package `sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy' in
> >> `/<<RESOLVERDIR>>/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy.deb'.
> >> gzip: unrecognized option '--keep'
> >> Try `gzip --help' for more information.
> >> gzip failed: 256
> >> E: cannot create dummy archive
> >> Failed to run apt-ftparchive.
> >> E: Setting up apt archive failed
> >> ```
> >>
> >> I currently run a slightly patched version of sbuild (.debdiff is
> >> attached). With the below patch, I can build packages for wheezy again:
> >>
> >> ```
> >> diff -Nru sbuild-0.78.1/debian/patches/support-gzip-in-wheezy.patch
> >> sbuild-0.78.1/debian/patches/support-gzip-in-wheezy.patch
> >> ---
> >> sbuild-0.78.1/debian/patches/support-gzip-in-wheezy.patch 1970-01-01
> >> 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> >> +++
> >> sbuild-0.78.1/debian/patches/support-gzip-in-wheezy.patch 2019-04-01
> >> 11:33:06.000000000 +0200
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> >> +Description: gzip in wheezy lacks --keep option, so avoid using it.
> >> +Author: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de>
> >> +
> >> +--- a/lib/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm
> >> ++++ b/lib/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm
> >> +@@ -1445,8 +1445,8 @@
> >> + closedir($dh);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> +-system('gzip', '--keep', '--force', 'Packages') == 0 or die "gzip
> >> failed: $?\n";
> >> +-system('gzip', '--keep', '--force', 'Sources') == 0 or die "gzip
> >> failed: $?\n";
> >> ++system('gzip -c --force Packages > Packages.gz') == 0 or die "gzip
> >> failed: $?\n";
> >> ++system('gzip -c --force Sources > Sources.gz' ) == 0 or die "gzip
> >> failed: $?\n";
> >> +
> >> + my $packages_md5 = hash_file('Packages', 'md5sum');
> >> + my $sources_md5 = hash_file('Sources', 'md5sum');
> >> ```
> >
> > indeed I was not aware that the --keep option is a relatively recent
> > addition
> > to gzip. Does wheezy sbuild at least have the short option or is it
> > completely
> > missing?
>
> Wheezy's gzip (not sbuild, as written above)Indeed a typo. Thanks. > lacks the --keep functionality entirely. So neither "--keep" and nor "-k" are > available. Ah, alright. Thanks for the additional information. > > Why do you think is this issue of severity important? Did you contact the > > release team about a possible freeze exception? > I assume that the RT will make a freeze exception for the above patch. One > member of the release team is also an ELTS contributor (Emilio, in Cc:). > Keeping Debian's tool chains intact, also for team's providing security > support for old versions of Debian, seems justification enough for setting > this bug's severity to important. Emilio, what is your feeling about this? > If you don't have a good feeling with this, could you still provide a > package upgrade proposal (as .debdiff) and I let the RT pre-approve the > to-be-uploaded package? I'm happy with the patch you provided. If you like, get RT pre-approve and NMU sbuild with the debdiff you provided. Thanks! cheers, josch
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