Re: Can't build mplayer (sbuild)

[Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>]

Soren, Jérémy,

thanks for your help.

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:11:09 -0700
Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:

> 
> I have been bit by this before, and it wasn’t apparent to me what the 
> problem was until someone kindly explained it to me.
> 
> The answer is that you need to install nasm on your main system, 
> because all the packages listed in the build-depends have to be 
> installed to run the clean target, which happens on your main system 
> before sbuild starts the chroot.
> 
> Probably you had it installed on your main system at some point in
> the past and it was recently removed.
> 

yes that's the issue.
I'm now having a look at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088269

Best,
Lorenzo