Package: libexpat1-dev Version: 2.2.3-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? attempting to compile a separate, unrelated, auto-everything/libtool-ized package, fails with "/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.la: No such file or directory libtool: error: '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.la' is not a valid libtool archive" why libtool is trying to use sed to read libexpat.la I cannot explain. the package I am compiling does not link against libexpat, nor can I find any reference to it in the libtool script, exactly the only place anywhere in the build log and libtool and Makefile scripts the letters "expat" appear, that I can find, is in the two lines of error message copied above. but libtool is an impenetrable black box, I have no idea why it does most of what it does. using https://packages.debian.org/ to search for packages in the "unstable" suite, for architecture "amd64", yields the claim that that file is in libexpat1-dev. I do have that package installed, and it does *not* provide that file as confirmed with dpkg -L. downloading the package from here http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat1-dev_2.2.5-3_amd64.deb and checking with file-roller shows no libexpat.la inside it. so, an additional bug appears to be that the package contents database does not, in fact, reflect the contents of packages. hmm. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I can do nothing, I'm stuck. the file "libexpat.la" does not exist. * What was the outcome of this action? Still stuck. * What outcome did you expect instead? I'd expect to be stuck. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libexpat1-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.25-3 ii libexpat1 2.2.3-2 libexpat1-dev recommends no packages. libexpat1-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
