Source: caml-crush Version: 1.0.12-1.1 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 caml-crush to FTBFS in sid with: | checking for gawk... no | checking for mawk... mawk | checking for camlidl... yes | checking for spatch... yes | Detected coccinelle version 1.1.1 | configure: Using default C based client and RPC | checking for getnetname in -ltirpc... no | configure: Using the glibc RPC implementation | checking for rpc/rpc.h... no | configure: error: Could not find C RPC headers. | cd build-SERVER && 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 caml-crush, uses rpcgen, provided by the rpcsvc-proto during the build process. It is currently a dependency 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
