On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 07:19:20PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Package: libsnmpkit2c2a
> Version: 0.9-16
> Severity: grave
> Justification: unintentionally empty package on a release architecture
> User: helm...@debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap
>
> libsnmpkit2c2a somehow went empty on ppc64el. The build log reveals:
>
> | checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf64ppc) supports shared
> libraries... no
>
> Thus it seems that no shared library was built. Unfortunately, the use
> of dh_movefiles rather than dh_install causes this to be a non-fatal
> error and the resulting binary package is simply empty. I added
> d-powerpc@l.d.o to via X-Debbugs-Cc as this looks like a typical porter
> issue.
It seems to be caused by the very ancient libtool used.
"fakeroot debian/rules autogen" is likely the easiest way to fix
that for stretch.
> Helmut
cu
Adrian
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