Bug#1031968: libxfconf-0-dev fails to build with valac installed
Package: libxfconf-0-dev
Version: 4.18.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs patch
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Dear Maintainer,
To reproduce the problem please follow these steps:
$ sudo apt install valac
$ apt-get source libxfconf-0-dev
$ cd xfconf-4.18.0
$ dpkg-buildpackage -j`nproc`
Output:
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...
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_missing
dh_missing: warning: usr/share/vala/vapi/libxfconf-0.deps exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere
dh_missing: warning: usr/share/vala/vapi/libxfconf-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-xfconf-0 (1), libxfconf-0-3 (2), libxfconf-0-dev (5), xfconf (5)
* dh_installdocs: gir1.2-xfconf-0 (0), libxfconf-0-3 (0), libxfconf-0-dev (1), xfconf (0)
* dh_installman: gir1.2-xfconf-0 (0), libxfconf-0-3 (0), libxfconf-0-dev (0), xfconf (1)
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:7: 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 files to libxfconf-0-dev.
This vala api files are 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 (check the patch).
-- 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 libxfconf-0-dev depends on:
ii gir1.2-xfconf-0 4.18.0-1
ii libglib2.0-dev 2.74.5-1
ii libxfconf-0-3 4.18.0-1
ii pkg-config 1.8.1-1
ii pkgconf [pkg-config] 1.8.1-1
libxfconf-0-dev recommends no packages.
libxfconf-0-dev suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -Naur xfconf-4.18.0-orig/debian/control xfconf-4.18.0/debian/control
--- xfconf-4.18.0-orig/debian/control 2022-12-10 10:48:30.000000000 +0300
+++ xfconf-4.18.0/debian/control 2023-02-26 05:03:43.079063926 +0300
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
intltool,
libgirepository1.0-dev,
libxfce4util-dev (>= 4.17.3),
+ valac,
xfce4-dev-tools (>= 4.16)
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Standards-Version: 4.6.1
diff -Naur xfconf-4.18.0-orig/debian/libxfconf-0-dev.install xfconf-4.18.0/debian/libxfconf-0-dev.install
--- xfconf-4.18.0-orig/debian/libxfconf-0-dev.install 2020-11-14 13:01:16.000000000 +0300
+++ xfconf-4.18.0/debian/libxfconf-0-dev.install 2023-02-26 05:02:28.854000853 +0300
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
usr/lib/*/pkgconfig
usr/share/gir-1.0/*
usr/share/gtk-doc
+usr/share/vala/vapi/*
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