On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 18:15:21 +0200 Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: libcap-ng > Version: 0.9.5-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: temporarily prevent testing migration > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: rebootstrap > > libcap-ng gained a build dependency on libbluetooth-dev. bluez has a > wild zoo of build dependencies many of which do not presently > participate in architecture bootstrap. It also pulls a pile of gir > packages that cannot be cross built without qemu. libcap-ng also is in > the bootstrap set. This is the sort of situation that fundamentally > breaks Debian's ability to be bootstrapped. I am therefore filing this > as serious and hope you agree. Please downgrade if not. > > As for solutions, I see that libbluetooth-dev is needed for building > utils, but utils is not what the bootstrap needs. Hence, I propose > adding a pkg.libcap-ng.noutils build profile that disables both. I > compared a full build with a profile build and the packages emitted from > both are bit-identical on amd64. Bootstrap builds can enable this > profile and proceed as they did before (albeit without a libcap-ng-utils > package). > > Let me know what you think. > > Helmut
Hi Helmut, I saw that something was off, but I didn't think it was this. I can remove libbluetooth-dev if that is better solution, it's optional for utils. I can also add your patch if you prefer. Håvard
