Hi and thanks for your report! On Sun, 2021-10-17 at 09:26 -0400, Travis Wrightsman via Debian-on- mobile-maintainers wrote: > Package: chatty > Version: 0.4.0-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: fails to build from source > Tags: ftbfs upstream > > Chatty fails to cross-build due to a dependency resolution error for > the > libpurple-dev package. > > I'm not sure this is a chatty-specific bug but I'm also not sure where > else to place it.
I've just checked with another package which uses libpurple-dev (f.e. purple-matrix) and ran (perhaps unsurprisingly) into the same issue when crossbuilding. CCing the pidgin maintainer. > > It occurs on Debian Salsa builds: > https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/chatty/-/jobs/1940649#L1475 Possibly (probably?) related crossbuild failure in pidgin: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pidgin/-/jobs/2035973#L1446 pidgin-cross-build-deps:arm64 : Depends: libxml-parser-perl:arm64 but it is not installable Depends: python3:arm64 but it is not going to be installed Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up... I've also looked at libxml-parser-perl which fails both locally with the pbuilder invocation from below and in CI. https://salsa.debian.org/devrtz/libxml-parser-perl/-/jobs/2100268#L1425 The following packages have unmet dependencies: builddeps:/build/libxml-parser-perl_2.46-2.dsc:arm64 : Depends: libdevel-checklib-perl:arm64 but it is not installable I've not (yet) dived any deeper than this. > > It also occurs when using git-buildpackage to cross-build for my > (arm64) > PinePhone from my (amd64) laptop. > > $ BUILDER=pbuilder DIST=bookworm git-pbuilder create > $ echo 'PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD="/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder- > satisfydepends-apt"' > ~/.pbuilderrc > $ BUILDER=pbuilder gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-pbuilder- > options="--host-arch arm64" --git-dist=bookworm > [...] > Building dependency tree... > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > builddeps:/build/chatty_0.4.0-1.dsc:arm64 : Depends: libpurple- > dev:arm64 but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed. > [...] > I can reproduce this, but I don't really understand why this happens as I'm not intimately familiar with all the intricacies of crossbuilding because I usually "cross"build in natively in an arm64 qemu chroot. CCing debian-cross in the hopes that someone can shed some light here :) More generally: What should be the next steps? I guess I could reassign this bug to the pidgin source package (as it provides libpurple-dev)? And open bugs to a) libxml-parser-perl b) libdevel-checklib-perl c) python3 (and/or all the packages that make python FTCBFS) > Chatty builds successfully on the PinePhone using git-buildpackage. > > -- Cheers, Evangelos
