On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 03:19:07AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Source: nftables > Version: 1.1.5-2 > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > > Hey. > > It seems nftables requires asciidoc-base for building. > > Without it, the ./configure of debian/rules binary gives a: > checking for a2x... no > and later one gets's a failure with: > no -L --doctype manpage --format manpage -D "./doc" doc/nft.txt > /bin/bash: line 1: no: command not found > make[3]: *** [Makefile:1990: doc/nft.8] Error 127 > make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/calestyo/test/nftables-1.1.5' > make[2]: *** [Makefile:807: all] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/calestyo/test/nftables-1.1.5' > dh_auto_build: error: make -j1 returned exit code 2 > make[1]: *** [debian/rules:39: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/calestyo/test/nftables-1.1.5' > make: *** [debian/rules:28: binary] Error 2 > > so it actually tries to use "no" as binary name, which IMO is also kinda > strange. Shouldn't the ./configure already fail earlier?
Hi. It works for me using sbuild with the unshare backend. Are you doing something unusual, like building with dpkg-buildpackage directly from the git repository? Can you reproduce the build failure using sbuild? Thanks.
