When building the package, it's FTBFS with an undefined reference to mainbody. According to http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2009-March/000556.html, we have to add export CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash to fix this FTBFS (and it works). *** /tmp/tmpwqqvL9 In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * debian/rules: fix FTBFSWe thought you might be interested in doing the same.I'm sorry! We can't reproduce this: luatex 0.40.0-1 built fine on all arches and reached already testing. In the build logs are a lot of warnings:
It's a shell issue (as the fix given in the report implies), it is reproducable on sid if you use dash as /bin/sh but not if you use bash as /bin/sh . I can confirm that the fix given in the original bug report makes the build succeed with either bash or dash as /bin/sh