Source: dee Version: 1.2.7+17.10.20170616-8 Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: ftcbfs cross-satisfiability
dee cannot be cross built from source. There are several reasons. The immediate problem is a failure to install the host architecture python3 interpreter. It really wants to run python3 during build, so a native python3 needs to be used. This also applies to python3-gi, which is used to discover the architecture-independent override directory. Nextup, the gtk-doc scanner fails. Fortunately, dee separates the documentation to an Arch:all package. Therefore, arch-only builds such as cross builds may disable gtk-doc. Reproducible builds can be used to verify the correctness of the change. Last but not least, it performs a separate build during override_dh_install. There, configure is invoked manually and thus misses the crucial --host flag. Wrapping the invocation in dh_auto_configure fixes this. The attached patch combines the aforementioned suggestions and makes dee cross buildable. Please consider applying it. Helmut
diff -Nru dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/changelog dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/changelog --- dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/changelog 2025-10-01 16:25:23.000000000 +0200 +++ dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/changelog 2025-12-15 22:01:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +dee (1.2.7+17.10.20170616-8.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix FTCBFS: (Closes: #-1) + + Annotate Python Build-Depends :native. + + Skip gtk-doc in arch-only build. + + Let dh_auto_configure pass --host to configure. + + -- Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:01:36 +0100 + dee (1.2.7+17.10.20170616-8) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/patches/incompatible-pointer-types.patch: diff -Nru dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/control dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/control --- dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/control 2025-10-01 16:25:23.000000000 +0200 +++ dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/control 2025-12-15 22:01:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ libglib2.0-dev, libicu-dev, pkg-config, - python3, - python3-gi, + python3:native, + python3-gi:native, valac Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Section: libs diff -Nru dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/rules dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/rules --- dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/rules 2025-10-01 16:25:23.000000000 +0200 +++ dee-1.2.7+17.10.20170616/debian/rules 2025-12-15 22:01:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ NOCONFIGURE=1 dh_autoreconf ./autogen.sh override_dh_auto_configure: - dh_auto_configure -- --enable-gtk-doc + dh_auto_configure -- --$(if $(filter libdee-doc,$(shell dh_listpackages)),en,dis)able-gtk-doc override_dh_auto_test: ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),riscv64) @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ endif override_dh_install: - PYTHON=python3 ./configure --prefix=/usr + PYTHON=python3 dh_auto_configure cd bindings/python/ && DESTDIR=../../debian/tmp make install && cd ../.. dh_install -X.la -X.a -X.pyc -X.pyo
