Control: retitle 980691 gnome-software: FTBFS: Package 'jcat', required by 'fwupd', not found Control: retitle 980684 gnome-firmware: FTBFS: Package 'jcat', required by 'fwupd', not found Control: reassign 980691 libfwupd-dev 1.5.5-2 Control: reassign 980684 libfwupd-dev 1.5.5-2 Control: merge 980691 980684 Control: affects 980691 + gnome-software gnome-firmware
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 21:48:16 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, [gnome-software] failed to build > on amd64. > > > Run-time dependency fwupd found: NO > > > > ../meson.build:173:2: ERROR: Could not generate cargs for fwupd: > > Package jcat was not found in the pkg-config search path. > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `jcat.pc' > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > > Package 'jcat', required by 'fwupd', not found (and a very similar bug report for gnome-firmware) This can be worked around by adding more -dev build-dependencies to gnome-software and gnome-firmware, but it's really a bug in the packaging of libfwupd-dev. It should have Depends on each -dev package that is required when linking against fwupd.pc using pkg-config (including Requires.private), so that dependent packages like gnome-software aren't required to know ahead of time what fwupd depends on. Adding a superficial autopkgtest for each -dev package that links a trivial executable against the library, and running it before upload, is a surprisingly effective way to detect packaging mistakes like this one, and I try to add an autopkgtest to every -dev package that I contribute to. In this case, as well as jcat, it detects that there are other missing dependencies: the one that first causes test failure is gio-2.0.pc, provided by libglib2.0-dev. I'm testing patches to resolve this and add the autopkgtest that I suggest, but haven't tested them successfully yet, so I'm not tagging this +patch right now. Please see <https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd/-/merge_requests/3> for progress. Thanks, smcv
