Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 src:guile-2.0
Control: retitle -2 guile-2.0 FTBFS with make-dfsg/4.3-1: ERROR: alternatives
priority expects min version < 1000
Control: tags -2 bullseye sid
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:41:05PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: reassign -2 src:guile-3.0
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 07:13:27PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > While bootstrap testing unstable, I noticed that guile-2.2 fails to
> > build from source (natively). A build now ends quicky:
> >
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package guile-2.2
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.2.7+1-5
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Rob Browning
> > <r...@defaultvalue.org>
> > | dpkg-source --before-build .
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
> > | fakeroot debian/rules clean
> > | /bin/bash: ${\#x}: bad substitution
> > | debian/rules:70: *** ERROR: alternatives priority expects min version <
> > 1000. Stop.
> > | dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned
> > exit status 2
> >
> > This only happens since make-dfsg/4.3-1, but I think the bug here
> > ultimately is with guile-2.2. The relevant code from debian/rules is:
> >
> > | ifneq (ok,$(shell x='$(deb_src_min_ver)'; [ "$${\#x}" -lt 4 ] && echo
> > ok;))
> > | $(error ERROR: alternatives priority expects min version < 1000)
> > | endif
> >
> > It is surprising that this didn't fail with earlier versions of make.
> > The shell substitution is clearly wrong. It is unclear what it is
> > supposed to achieve. In any case, deleting these lines makes the build
> > proceed.
>
> guile-3.0 also has this exact same bug.
So does guile-2.0:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/guile-2.0.html
> Helmut
cu
Adrian
