On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > > so it actually tries to use "no" as binary name, which IMO is also kinda > > strange. Shouldn't the ./configure already fail earlier? > > AsciiDoc is only required to generate the man-pages. However, since the > upstream tar-ball already includes these, there is no need to generate > them when building the Debian package, which is why there is no > build-dep on asciidoc-base. In the excerpt you have included above, > however, make has decided to attempt to regenerate the man-pages, and it > has failed. Can you provide more context?
In case it helps, I forked the repo in salsa and pushed the "new pipeline" button, and everything is green: https://salsa.debian.org/sanvila/pkg-nftables/-/pipelines So, after reading your comment above, I still bet for "trying to build from git" as the root cause of this. (In such case I would not consider it as a bug, because in general we want to have as few build-depends as possible, and we already have gbp for those who want to build from git). Thanks.
