Bug#958414: Latest equivs version 2.3.0 breaks mk-build-deps

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Josch,

thanks for bringing this to my attention. It seems as if I have
overseen Otto's bug report wen it came in two weeks ago. (Sorry,
Otto.)

Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > I am pretty sure this is related to the recent equivs 2.3.0 release,
> > but I have not figured out the details yet.

Some things have changed slightly in equivs and might need adaptions
in scripts using them where they make assumptions never guaranteed and
now no more true, like that only a .deb file is produced. E.g. now it
also produces .changes and .buildinfo files, see e.g.
https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/issues/154

>     bisection finished successfully
>       last good timestamp: 2020-04-19 06:52:31.476563+02:00
>       first bad timestamp: 2020-04-19 10:35:09.156250+02:00
>     only one package differs: equivs is the culprit

Yeah, but we know that already. I still haven't understood what
exactly causes this issue. If it's similar as with mk-ci-build-deps
above, this is likely a bug in mk-build-deps then, just triggered by equivs.

> Notice that the test-command executes equivs-build with one of the provided
> examples (webserver.ctl), so the problem is not mk-build-deps specific.

Ok, will have a look at this closer.

> I wrote an autopkgtest which also demonstrates the problem:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs/-/merge_requests/5

Will likely merge it once I've understood the cause of issue. Thanks
for the test!

		Regards, Axel
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