Re: Source upload of r-cran-treescape does not build on any architecture - but why?
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>I did a source upload of r-cran-treescape at 2016-12-19 21:51:35.
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>When looking at the build log page[1] I realise that vor some architectures
>a Build-Depends is missing but I have no idea why for instance amd64 is
>not build after > 36 hours.
clicking on "logs" shows a lot of failed attempts
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=r-cran-treescape&arch=amd64
Selecting previously unselected package r-base-core.
Preparing to unpack .../116-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Pz7ptL/116-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
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Unpacking sbuild-build-depends-r-cran-treescape-dummy (0.invalid.0) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Pz7ptL/116-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb
W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
apt-get failed.
so, unless you fix r-base the build will fail.
[edit]
this seems to be a bug in dpkg
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848422
maybe in the next chroot update it will fix by itself
(feel free to test in a chroot)
dpkg 1.8.17 should have the fix
https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20161219T030728Z.html
G.
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