Lots of postgresql packages FTBFS in trixie (debian/control needs updating from debian/control.in)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

Hello.

As the subject says, many postgresql-related packages FTBFS in this way:
(I'm taking postgresql-unit as an example)

make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
   dh_clean
   pg_buildext checkcontrol
--- debian/control      2024-09-15 11:58:15.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/control.VFAeRh       2024-09-19 05:00:18.737341291 +0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/df7cb/postgresql-unit
 Homepage: https://github.com/df7cb/postgresql-unit
 
-Package: postgresql-17-unit
+Package: postgresql-16-unit
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${postgresql:Depends}
 Description: SI Units for PostgreSQL
Error: debian/control needs updating from debian/control.in. Run 'pg_buildext updatecontrol'.
If you are seeing this message in a buildd log, a sourceful upload is required.
make: *** [debian/rules:10: clean] Error 1 shuffle=2080555641
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2


Is this really normal/expected, or is there a bug somewhere? (like, for example,
a missing build-dependency which propagated to testing prematurely).

I'm concerned about this because even if this is the kind of bug which
end up being fixed over time, if we were to release trixie as stable today,
we would ship many FTBFS bugs like those, so this is apparently something
that we should avoid to happen.

Thanks.