zeroc-ice seems to build fine without listing libmono2.0-cil and mono-gmcs in the Build-Depends.
NMU prepared; debdiff attached. P.S. the maintainers for zeroc-ice in Debian have not been heard from in some time. (2 years) :-( -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us
diff -Nru zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/changelog zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/changelog --- zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/changelog 2015-11-21 02:41:17.000000000 -0500 +++ zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/changelog 2016-03-04 23:17:37.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +zeroc-ice (3.5.1-6.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * debian/control: + - Remove dependencies to fix FTBFS bug: + libmono2.0-cil, + mono-gmcs + (Closes: #815775) + [Note: the Ubuntu source packages zeroc-ice upstream ships have + far fewer Build-Depends.] + + -- Christopher Knadle <chris.kna...@coredump.us> Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:54:19 -0500 + zeroc-ice (3.5.1-6.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/control zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/control --- zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/control 2015-11-19 23:39:06.000000000 -0500 +++ zeroc-ice-3.5.1/debian/control 2016-03-04 21:59:26.000000000 -0500 @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ ruby, libqt4-dev, Build-Depends-Indep: mono-devel | c-sharp-2.0-compiler, - libmono2.0-cil, pkg-config, default-jdk | java-gcj-compat, libjgoodies-looks-java (>= 2.5.2), @@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ libdb5.3-java (>= 5.1.4~) | libdb-java (>= 5.1.4~), ant, ant-optional, - mono-gmcs, cli-common-dev (>= 0.8~) Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: http://www.zeroc.com/