Control: retitle -1 zsh: FTBFS iff transitional package libncursesw5-dev is not installed but a package providing it (dpkg-gencontrol: error: parsing package 'zsh-static') Control: tag -1 + confirmed pending
Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/vinc17/tmp/zsh-5.8' > > dh_gencontrol -a -- -VBuilt-Using="libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= > > 6.2+20201114-4), (= ), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= 2.32-1), " > [...] > > At > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=zsh&arch=amd64&ver=5.8-7&stamp=1630542289&raw=0 > (successful build on 2021-09-02), I can see: > > dh_gencontrol -a -- -VBuilt-Using="libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= > 6.2+20201114-4), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= > 2.31-17), " > > Notice the duplicate "ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4)". On my machine, the > second one is replaced by " (= )", which yields the failure. > > Moreover, debian/rules has > > BUILT_USING=$(shell for pkg in libcap-dev libncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev > libpcre3-dev libc-dev-bin; do dpkg-query -f '$${status}' -W $$pkg 2>&1 | grep > -Fq installed && dpkg-query -f '$${source:Package} (= $${source:Version}), ' > -W $$pkg; done) > > while on my machine, libncursesw5-dev is not installed and is provided > by libncurses-dev. Indeed, can confirm that this happens if and only if the transitional package libncursesw5-dev (as listed in the build-dependencies) is not installed but only a package providing it. Your patch looks sane and minimal. Thanks! Will apply that and do an upload. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
