Hi! On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 00:30:00 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Guillem Jover [Fri Jul 31, 2015 at 05:48:47PM +0200]: > > If it's not possible to upgrade, could the issue be worked around, > > by for example adding a local patch to revert that (I'd happily > > provide one), or stripping the build-profile with sed or similar? > > I'd rather not have to revert this in dpkg itself. > > I've just upgraded the system to jessie so we don't need that > workaround (and since it was anyway on our todo liste, good thing > that was pushed ;)).
Great, thanks for that! > But the binary package build fails inside cowbuilder (sid): > > | 00:04:10 Depends: debhelper (>= 9), pkg-config, flex, gettext (>= 0.19), > po4a (>= 0.41), zlib1g-dev, libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libselinux1-dev (>= > 1.28-4), libncursesw5-dev, libio-string-perl <!nocheck> > | 00:04:10 dpkg-deb: error: parsing file > '/tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy/DEBIAN/control' > near line 8 package 'pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy': > | 00:04:10 'Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package > 'libio-string-perl' > | 00:04:10 E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed. > > -- https://jenkins.grml.org/job/dpkg-binaries/architecture=amd64/318/console > > So I guess we need the workaround until dpkg of unstable can handle > that? :) The problem is in pbuilder, the version supporting build-profiles was just NMUed recently in unstable (#740577 0.215+nmu4). :/ So the options could be: * backport that pbuilder version to jessie and install that. * switch to sbuild which should have build-profiles support in jessie, (which might be undesirable or too much work, but then pbuilder seems pretty much unmaintained nowadays, barring NMUs :). * workaround this somehow in the jenkins setup? * revert the patch. :( Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150731225413.ga1...@gaara.hadrons.org