Bug#1031967: libxfce4util-dev fails to build with valac installed
Package: libxfce4util-dev
Version: 4.18.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs patch
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Dear Maintainer,
to repeat the problem, please follow these steps:
$ sudo apt install valac
$ apt-get source libxfce4util-dev
$ cd libxfce4util-4.18.1/
$ dpkg-buildpackage -j`nproc`
Output:
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...
dh_missing
dh_missing: warning: usr/share/vala/vapi/libxfce4util-1.0.vapi exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere
The following debhelper tools have reported what they installed (with files per package)
* dh_install: gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 (1), libxfce4util-bin (1), libxfce4util-common (1), libxfce4util-dev (38), libxfce4util7 (2)
* dh_installdocs: gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 (0), libxfce4util-bin (0), libxfce4util-common (0), libxfce4util-dev (1), libxfce4util7 (0)
* dh_installman: gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 (0), libxfce4util-bin (1), libxfce4util-common (0), libxfce4util-dev (0), libxfce4util7 (0)
If the missing files are installed by another tool, please file a bug against it.
When filing the report, if the tool is not part of debhelper itself, please reference the
"Logging helpers and dh_missing" section from the "PROGRAMMING" guide for debhelper (10.6.3+).
(in the debhelper package: /usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.gz)
Be sure to test with dpkg-buildpackage -A/-B as the results may vary when only a subset is built
If the omission is intentional or no other helper can take care of this consider adding the
paths to debian/not-installed.
dh_missing: error: missing files, aborting
make: *** [debian/rules:22: binary] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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To fix the issue I propose including valac to package build dependencies
and include vala api file to libxfce4util-dev.
This vala api file is useful when you wish to build some xfce plugins
from vala sources. One example is xfce4-notes-plugin which I was trying
to build and found that some vala api files are missing in Debian
distribution.
Possible fix follows.
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diff -Naur libxfce4util-4.18.1-orig/debian/control libxfce4util-4.18.1/debian/control
--- libxfce4util-4.18.1-orig/debian/control 2023-01-12 10:28:40.000000000 +0300
+++ libxfce4util-4.18.1/debian/control 2023-02-26 04:31:58.179657805 +0300
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
intltool,
libgirepository1.0-dev,
libglib2.0-dev,
+ valac,
xfce4-dev-tools
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Standards-Version: 4.6.2
diff -Naur libxfce4util-4.18.1-orig/debian/libxfce4util-dev.install libxfce4util-4.18.1/debian/libxfce4util-dev.install
--- libxfce4util-4.18.1-orig/debian/libxfce4util-dev.install 2022-12-05 09:48:34.000000000 +0300
+++ libxfce4util-4.18.1/debian/libxfce4util-dev.install 2023-02-26 04:27:37.163908152 +0300
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/*
usr/share/gir-1.0/*
usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxfce4util/*
+usr/share/vala/vapi/*
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libxfce4util-dev depends on:
ii gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 4.18.1-1
ii libglib2.0-dev 2.74.5-1
ii libxfce4util7 4.18.1-1
libxfce4util-dev recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libxfce4util-dev suggests:
pn devhelp <none>
-- no debconf information
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