Source: gdbm Version: 1.14.1-2 Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: rebootstrap
gdbm is part of architecture bootstrap, because perl needs it and because debhelper needs it via man-db. Thus it needs to be cross buildable. The new dietlibc-dev dependency makes that difficult. For one thing, cross building dietlibc does not presently work, nor is fixing the debian package simple. Another issue is that the dietlibc packaging does not separate the diet tool in a way suitable for cross compilation. These issues are documented in #889080. Thus I'll have to reqeuest that you drop the dietlibc-dev dependency for the time being. It's not necessary to drop it completely. Making it optional via a build profile is sufficient. Thus I am proposing the attached patch for doing so. I note that it makes libgdbm-dev provide a new virtual package libgdbm-dietlibc-dev iff it builds with dietlibc support. Thus reverse dependencies using the dietlibc functionality should depend on libgdbm-dietlibc-dev rather than libgdbm-dev. Possibly it would be even better to split this out as a real package, but my patch tries to keep the changes minimal. Please consider applying it. In general, I question the utility of having dietlibc as some addon library on a regular glibc port. Wouldn't it be a lot better if there was a dietlibc-linux-any port? Then you could simply build gdbm for dietlibc-linux-something and have regular dietlibc packages with no extra effort. Piggy backing it on existing glibc ports seems just wrong to me and it makes bootstrapping harder. Helmut
diff --minimal -Nru gdbm-1.14.1/debian/changelog gdbm-1.14.1/debian/changelog --- gdbm-1.14.1/debian/changelog 2018-01-31 13:24:25.000000000 +0100 +++ gdbm-1.14.1/debian/changelog 2018-02-01 20:56:26.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gdbm (1.14.1-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add pkg.gdbm.nodietlibc build profile. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:56:26 +0100 + gdbm (1.14.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Upload to unstable diff --minimal -Nru gdbm-1.14.1/debian/control gdbm-1.14.1/debian/control --- gdbm-1.14.1/debian/control 2018-01-29 14:43:50.000000000 +0100 +++ gdbm-1.14.1/debian/control 2018-02-01 20:55:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Build-Depends: texinfo, debhelper (>= 10), dh-exec, - dietlibc-dev (>= 0.34~cvs20160606-3) [alpha amd64 arm arm64 armeb armel armhf hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel mips64el powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el s390 s390x sparc sparc64 x32], + dietlibc-dev (>= 0.34~cvs20160606-3) [alpha amd64 arm arm64 armeb armel armhf hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel mips64el powerpc powerpcspe ppc64 ppc64el s390 s390x sparc sparc64 x32] <!pkg.gdbm.nodietlibc>, libreadline-dev Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Homepage: https://gnu.org/software/gdbm @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Package: libgdbm-dev Architecture: any Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libgdbm5 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Provides: ${libgdbm-dietlibc:Provides} Section: libdevel Priority: optional Multi-Arch: same diff --minimal -Nru gdbm-1.14.1/debian/rules gdbm-1.14.1/debian/rules --- gdbm-1.14.1/debian/rules 2018-01-18 19:35:48.000000000 +0100 +++ gdbm-1.14.1/debian/rules 2018-02-01 20:56:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_DIETLIBC),yes) override_dh_gencontrol: - dh_gencontrol -- -VBuilt-Using="$(BUILT_USING)" + dh_gencontrol -- -VBuilt-Using="$(BUILT_USING)" -Vlibgdbm-dietlibc:Provides=libgdbm-dietlibc-dev endif override_dh_install:
