Hi, Christian Hofstaedtler prepared a stable update for procps regarding #632749 (with ACK from Craig as the procps maintainer and from Adam from the release team - Cc-ing both of them therefore FYI). While reviewing the package I noticed an interesting bug, causing procps in squeeze to have an accidental hidden Build-Depend on itself, which only influences the -dev package. The issue turns up as follows: | % dpkg -c libproc-dev_3.2.8-9squeeze1_amd64.deb | grep libproc.so | lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2011-08-22 00:19 ./usr/lib/libproc.so -> /lib/libproc-*.so This bug is caused by the following lines in debian/rules: | PROCLIB = $(shell basename proc/libproc-*.so) | [...] | ( cd static && ln -s /lib/$(PROCLIB) libproc.so ) *But*: e.g. the amd64 binary package in the Debian squeeze repository doesn't suffer from this problem: | % dpkg -c libproc-dev_3.2.8-9_amd64.deb | grep libproc.so | lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2010-05-04 13:26 ./usr/lib/libproc.so -> /lib/libproc-3.2.8.so My assumption: it's because this (amd64) version has been built by buildds. But Craig (as the maintainer) uploaded the i386 version which was built in a clean environment without having procps installed: | % dpkg -c libproc-dev_3.2.8-9_i386.deb | grep libproc.so | lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2010-05-04 13:44 ./usr/lib/libproc.so -> /lib/libproc-*.so Questions: 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? 2) How can we make sure such a bug doesn't happen again (besides working towards source-only uploads :))? Bugreport against buildd.debian.org? regards, -mika-
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