[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1026734: mricron: FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -lX11: No such file or directory

[Santiago Vila]

Hi.

This is really weird.

This package also failed for me on bookworm, with the same error
which happened to Lucas (the one in the Subject).

But today I tried again (in bookworm) and it worked, without any source change at all.
(mricron version 1.2.20211006+dfsg-1).

I see that this change was made to try to fix the bug:

* Build-Depends: libx11-dev. Closes: #1026734

but libx11-dev was already being installed when the package was built:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mricron&arch=amd64&ver=1.2.20211006%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1637004231&raw=0

(probably because of a build-dependency which in turn had a dependency on libx11-dev).

So, even if adding libx11-dev was probably correct and formally necessary,
as -lX11 was being used, I think it was not the real reason for the failure.

(Cc to Lucas, just in case he reported similar bugs in other packages).

Thanks.