Source: open-vm-tools Version: 2:12.3.5-4 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Dear maintainer, Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added to the libc6-dev package. The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1 NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes open-vm-tools to FTBFS in sid with: | checking for gtkmm-3.0 >= 3.0.0 (via pkg-config)... yes | checking for sigc++-2.0 >= 2.5.1 (via pkg-config)... yes | checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes | checking for dlopen... yes | checking for ecvt... yes | checking for fcvt... yes | checking for mkdtemp... yes | checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes | checking for g++... yes | checking for libtirpc (via pkg-config)... no | configure: tirpc is needed: yes | configure: error: cannot find libtirpc but it is required. | cd open-vm-tools && tail -v -n \+0 config.log This could be fixed by adding an explicit Build-Depends on libtirpc-dev. The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity of the bug. I also noticed that open-vm-tools, uses rpcgen, provided by the rpcsvc-proto during the build process. It is currently a depends of the libc6-dev package for the same reason as libnsl-dev, and will be removed at some point. Therefore please also add an explicit Build-Depends on rpcsvc-proto. Regards Aurelien
