Bug#53587: apt-get source --compile (package) doesn´t work with potato-sources

[h.nassenstein@gmx.de]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.10slink11

example:
apt-get source --compile debhelper (see output below)

Reason in the example below: A script dh_link is called which is not
contained in debhelper 1.1.24 (slink r4), but in debhelper 2.0.81
which should be compiled. :-O

Really: I tried to build a dozen packages, most are required for kernel
2.2.13. The only one which did run is modutils 2.3.7-1. Other sources 
seem to produce errors which can't be solved.

Actually slink r4 does NOT match requirements of kernel 2.2.13!

Questions: Is it possible to compile potato-sources with slink r4?
I think I should upgrade to libc6 2.1. Is this possible without any
problems?


output:
------------------------------
sh -e debian/fixlinks
touch link-stamp
./dh_clean
        rm -f debian/substvars debian/postinst.debhelper
debian/postrm.debhelper debian/preinst.debhelper debian/prerm.debhelper
        rm -rf debian/debhelper
        rm -f debian/files
        find . -type f -a \( -name \#\*\# -o -name \*\~ -o -name 
DEADJOE -o
-name \*.orig -o -name \*.rej -o -name \*.bak -o -name .\*.orig -o 
-name
.\*.rej -o -name .SUMS -o -name TAGS -o -name core -o \( -path 
\*/.deps/\*
-a -name \*.P \) \) -exec rm -f {} \;
DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ } @ARGV' 
t/*
t/dh_lin............Can't locate Test.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at 
t/dh_link
line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/dh_link line 2.
dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)

FAILED--1 test script could be run, alas--no output ever seen
make: *** [test] Error 2
Build command 'cd debhelper-2.0.81 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed



-- 
Ciao,

     Holger