you didn't mention whether or not you were able to successfully reproduce the FTBFS in xenial (or yakkety for that matter)
** Changed in: xfonts-wqy (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xfonts-wqy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1562668 Title: xfonts-wqy: FTBFS: Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at ./bdfmerge.pl line 35, near "ARGV)" Status in xfonts-wqy package in Ubuntu: New Status in xfonts-wqy source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in xfonts-wqy package in Debian: New Bug description: Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/808850: Source: xfonts-wqy Version: 1.0.0~rc1-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear Maintainer, xfonts-wqy fails to build from source in unstable/amd64: [..] dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b dpkg-buildpackage: source package xfonts-wqy dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0.0~rc1-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czc...@debian.org> dpkg-source --before-build xfonts-wqy-1.0.0~rc1 dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64 fakeroot debian/rules clean dh clean dh_testdir dh_auto_clean make -j1 clean make[1]: Entering directory '/home/lamby/temp/cdt.20151223192453.PThnk7KaAc/xfonts-wqy-1.0.0~rc1' rm -f wenquanyi_9pt.pcf wenquanyi_10pt.pcf wenquanyi_11pt.pcf wenquanyi_12pt.pcf wenquanyi_13px.pcf wenquanyi_9pt_cjk.bdf wenquanyi_10pt_cjk.bdf wenquanyi_11pt_cjk.bdf wenquanyi_12pt_cjk.bdf wenquanyi_13px_cjk.bdf make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/lamby/temp/cdt.20151223192453.PThnk7KaAc/xfonts-wqy-1.0.0~rc1' dh_clean debian/rules build dh build dh_testdir dh_auto_configure dh_auto_build make -j1 make[1]: Entering directory '/home/lamby/temp/cdt.20151223192453.PThnk7KaAc/xfonts-wqy-1.0.0~rc1' ./bdfmerge.pl 0x0--0xFFFF wenquanyi_9pt.bdf > wenquanyi_9pt_cjk.bdf shift on reference is experimental at ./bdfmerge.pl line 35. Type of arg 1 to shift must be array (not constant item) at ./bdfmerge.pl line 35, near "ARGV)" Execution of ./bdfmerge.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Makefile:42: recipe for target 'wenquanyi_9pt.pcf' failed make[1]: *** [wenquanyi_9pt.pcf] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/lamby/temp/cdt.20151223192453.PThnk7KaAc/xfonts-wqy-1.0.0~rc1' dh_auto_build: make -j1 returned exit code 2 debian/rules:3: recipe for target 'build' failed make: *** [build] Error 2 [..] The full build log is attached. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `- To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfonts-wqy/+bug/1562668/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp