Quoting NoisyCoil (2025-02-06 00:25:36) > Control: reassign -1 dh-rust > Control: retitle -1 dh-rust: fails to build packages with profile > `nocheck` and <!nocheck> B-Ds > Control: severity -1 important > Control: affects -1 + src:rust-async-std > > This is a dh-rust bug. When the build is done with the `nocheck` > profile, `cargo package` is still called in dh_auto_install. `cargo > package` expects the registry to be populated by the crate's > dependencies, so the build fails if d/control uses the <!nocheck> > qualifier for the B-Ds and these are not installed by other means. In > other words, the way dh-rust currently does things requires B-Ds to be > installed even if `nocheck` is used. > > Downgrading severity to important because I couldn't find anything in > the policy or in https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt to > suggest that packages must build with the `nocheck` profile. The > reported justification "Justification: fails to build from source (but > built successfully in the past)" is inaccurate because the packages do > in fact build from source with the default profile.
One way of looking at this is indeed to consider it a bug in dh-rust. More reasonably, however, I consider it a feature request for dh-rust, since dh-rust does not promise to support building without rust dependencies available. Consequently it is a bug in each and every package using dh-rust to flag rust-related dependencies as <!nocheck>. I noticed this some time ago and slowly began to cleanup build- dependencies, but was too lazy to properly file related bugreports. Thanks to you both for improving the reporting of this issue. Arguably the bug in rust-async-std (and some 60 other packages) is more severe, by the notion in Debian Policy ยง7.7 that it is optional to declare dependencies, but if any are declared then they must be correct. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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