Re: Need help with packaging tree-sitter-verilog

[Aryan Karamtoth <aryankmmiv@outlook.com>]

On 18-07-2025 15:44, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:39, Aryan Karamtoth <aryankmmiv@outlook.com> 
> wrote:
> > On 17/07/25 22:50, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:10, Aryan Karamtoth <aryankmmiv@outlook.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Ok I fixed those apt errors and got as far as initially running 
> > > > sbuild but then I encountered some issues with dh_auto_clean
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  dpkg-source --before-build .
> > > > dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
> > > >  debian/rules clean
> > > > dh clean
> > > >    dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=rust
> > > > dh_auto_clean: error: Failed to resolve crate 
> > > > "tree-sitter-verilog-0.24.0" in cargo metadata for virtual library 
> > > > package "librust-tree-sitter-verilog-dev".
> > > > make: *** [debian/rules:9: clean] Error 25
> > > > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned 
> > > > exit status 2
> > > >
> > > > Any advice on this? You can check my work on salsa [1]
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this happens because dh-cargo translates -dev dependencies 
> > > literally; also your Provides: was wrong. I attached a patch that 
> > > should work ;)
> > >
> > > Note that you need to build for experimental like this:
> > > $ sbuild --build-dep-resolver=aspcud -d experimental
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > werdahias
> >
> >
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > I added the patches you sent and it does build the package now with 
> > the sbuild flags you suggested but autopkgtests fail for some reason. 
> > I tried fiddling around with it for an hour but it still fails no 
> > matter how many times I change things. I'm attaching the autopkgtest 
> > fail log paste here[1].
> That is expected since autopkgtest pulls from unstable, and does not 
> know how to pull in the exp packages.
> > I have also added experimental repository to my apt sources before this.
> No need; sbuild does all the magic.
> > I'm also attaching a paste of my debian/tests/control [2] for better 
> > context.
> >
> > I also noticed that the json files and parser.c in src/ get deleted 
> > when running sbuild, is it a normal behavior?
> yes, since they are in the clean target.
> > Also, I wish to build this for unstable since I heard that my Rust 
> > CLI app that I want to package also needs to be in experimental if 
> > this tree sitter package is in experimental. Can we rebuild it to 
> > unstable down the line even if we do it for experimental now?
> As long as your package depends on exp packages it must stay in exp. 
> We are still in the freeze; trixie will release ~10th August; I expect 
> the tree-siiter* stack to hit unstable after that. Nothing wrong with 
> staging things in experimental, in fact it's the recommended thing to 
> do during the freeze.
>
> best,
>
> werdahias


Hi Matthias,

Does this mean that I don't have to worry about autopkgtests failing? 
All of the other lintian tests pass. I had to stall piuparts tests 
because of those autopkgtests.

If they're not to be concerned about, I will sign and upload my package 
to mentors.debian.net for further reviews.

--
Regards,

Aryan Karamtoth
Debian Contributor
IRC: SpaciousCoder78

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