Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.17.8
Severity: normal
Control: block 746443
Hi,
A new version of Make has been released, and is currently in
experimental. An archive rebuild was done to check for breakage with
this new major version. 73 packages failed to build (in comparison
with a similar run with the current version of make). The results are
here: http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/results-make4/
Of the 73 packages that failed, 10 were due to a known
incompatibility, which has been fixed. About 20 or so were due to
various issues i the package, unrelated to this report. However, 40
packages failed to build due to the new make is not doing the expected
thing when called as: make -f debian/rules -qn build-arch
(And by expected is return 2 when not found, any other return
code otherwise). Since dpkg-buildpackage cannot ascertain that
'build-arch' and 'build-indep' targets exist, it calls build, and does
not load B-D-I first. 40 packages fail to build due to this phenomena
(list appended).
The options, as I see it are:
1) Do nothing. retain make-3.81 in Debian forever more. Needless to
say, this is not very attractive. Pro: There is no action to
take. Con: Almost every other distro is shipping a more recent
make. We will continue to diverge from everyone else, and already
the featires have diverged enough that people are having to add
special cases in the vuild system for the Debian family of
distributions.
2) Hack dpkg-buildpackage to always load B-D-I, and go back to just
calling ./debian/rules build. This is what we used to do. Pro: it
is pretty easy to do (umm, I would think, but I don't know the dpkg
code base so well anymore). This has the con of the inefficiency we
have tried to eliminate, in that all the build dependencies are
loaded for every build, even when not strictly needed.
3) We state that packages must provide build-arch and build-indep for
Jessie. This should trivially be true for every package using cdbs
or debhelper (or, heaven forbid, my old home brew build system),
and have dpkg-buildpackage call them without testing to see if they
exist. We would need to do another archive rebuild with the
modified dpkg-buildpackage to see how many packages do not
actually not implement these targets.
1) and 2) look to be unacceptable. 3) is where we want to be. I
have blocked migration of make_4.0 with a serious bug report, and will
make this bug block it,
Ideally, we should just bite the bullet and demand that all
packages implement the build-arch and build-indep targets, and call
them without testing for them as needed. An experimental build of
dpkg-dev could be used to do a full archive rebuild to see how that
shakes out.
apt_1.0.1
aspectc++_1.2-1
cernlib_20061220+dfsg3-4
csound_6.02~dfsg-2
dhcpcd_3.2.3-11
geant321_3.21.14.dfsg-11
gecode_4.2.1-1
gimp-dimage-color_1.1.0-3.2
git_1.9.2-1
gwhere_0.2.3.dfsg.1-4
gzip_1.6-3
haskell-tasty-golden_2.2.0.2-1
haskell-terminal-progress-bar_0.0.1.3-1
krb5_1.12.1+dfsg-1
libgksu_2.0.13~pre1-6
libreoffice_4.1.5-2
libusb-1.0_1.0.18-2
libusbx_1.0.17-1
lletters_0.1.95+gtk2-3.2
lpe_1.2.6.13-0.1
mclibs_20061220+dfsg3-3
mingw-w64_3.1.0-1
openjade1.3_1.3.2-12
openjade_1.4devel1-21
opusfile_0.5-1
paw_2.14.04.dfsg.2-9
plucker_1.8-34
portaudio_18.1-7.1
postgis_2.1.2+dfsg-2
pulseaudio_5.0-2
r-cran-base64enc_0.1-1-2
r-cran-maldiquant_1.10-1
readahead-fedora_1.5.6-5
sdcc_3.3.0+dfsg-1
slmon_0.5.13-2.2
socks4-server_4.3.beta2-18
speex_1.2~rc1.1-1
spellutils_0.7-5
xnee_3.18-1
xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii base-files7.2
ii binutils 2.24.51.20140425-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.8
ii make 4.0-2
ii patch 2.7.1-5
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
ii bcc [c-compiler] 0.16.17-3.1
ii build-essential 11.6
ii fakeroot 1.20-3
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.8.2-3
ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.7-8
ii gcc-4.5 [c-compiler] 4.5.4-1
ii gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.4-7
ii gcc-4.7 [c-compiler] 4.7.3-13
ii gcc-4.8 [c-compiler] 4.8.2-21
ii gcc-4.9 [c-compiler] 4.9.0-1
ii gnupg1.4.16-1.1
ii gnupg2 2.0.22-3
ii gpgv 1.4.16-1.1
ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-2
Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests:
ii debian-keyring 2014.04.25
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Manoj Srivastava
