Hi! On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 16:44:46 +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: xmlrp...@packages.debian.org, Guillem Jover <gjo...@sipwise.com> > Control: affects -1 + src:xmlrpc-c > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock
> This is a pre-approval request. Thanks for fixing and handling this! > ---- > [ Reason ] > xmlrpc-c/1.59.03-10 fix the FTBFS of the reverse dependencies > whom for some other reasons end-up dependening on 'pkgconf' Ah sorry, should have been more clear and probably give more details which are not obvious, on the bug report! This does not seem to currently affect any package in the archive, but it breaks (external) projects that use pkgconf/pkg-config to get its build flags. > [ Impact ] > That is not exactly clear to me, but I'm the one _learning_ > from all my previous & current interractions with Guillem; > so I trust he's judgement. *blush* :D Here's the details I incorrectly obviated from the report. With the version in trixie right now: ,--- $ xmlrpc-c-config --libs | sed -e 's/^/STDOUT: /'; echo EXIT:$? Package expat was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `expat.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'expat', required by 'virtual:world', not found STDOUT: -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lxmlrpc -lxmlrpc_util -lpthread EXIT:0 `--- Which is what I think most packages are currently using in Debian. But the problem is with: ,--- $ pkgconf --libs xmlrpc | sed -e 's/^/STDOUT: /'; echo EXIT:$? Package expat was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `expat.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'expat', required by 'xmlrpc', not found EXIT:1 `--- So this does not ignore the errors, and then produces no output, so library users end up failing to link against the library, where expat is an implementation detail, that should only be needed when statically linking. With the fixed libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev package, which pulls in libexpat1-dev, we should get instead: ,--- $ pkgconf --libs xmlrpc | sed -e 's/^/STDOUT: /'; echo EXIT:$? STDOUT: -lxmlrpc -lxmlrpc_util EXIT:0 `--- ,-- $ pkgconf --static --libs xmlrpc | sed -e 's/^/STDOUT: /'; echo EXIT:$? STDOUT: -lxmlrpc -lxmlrpc_util -lexpat -lm EXIT:0 `--- Thanks, Guillem
