runit not buildable, only build-dependency is arch qualified

Debian autobuilders are currently refusing to build runit on many architectures (both official and unofficial) with the following message[1][2] runit build-depends on missing: - empty-dependency-after-parsing The immediate cause seems to be that runit recently removed procps from it's build-d

on quilt, dpkg, dgit and symlinks.

I recently discovered some unusual behaviour in a source package I was working on. I was using some scripts I put together myself to generate patch series for a debian package. dgit claimed I was creating a new symlink and that creation of a new symlink could not be represented by 3.0 (quilt)

dpkg-source -b failing on raspbian (and probably other derivatives)

Recently in raspbian bullseye-staging dpkg-source -b started failing. There were no error messages, it just exited with status 127. For example dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building yubikey-personalization using existing ./yubikey-personalization_1.20.