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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi,

On 12/01/23 at 18:42 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> thanks again for watching me. ;-)
> 
> Am Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 05:10:50PM +0100 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> > This is really weird.
> 
> +1
>  
> > 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).
> 
> Yes, this is what I assumed ... but I wanted to be super sure.
>  
> > 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).
> 
> I'd be also curious what might have caused that problem.

I don't think that there was a large number of similar failures when I
reported that bug. But yes it was probably a bug in another package.

You could try to 'bisect' using snapshot.debian.org to find the package
that introduced the problem, but it's fairly time consuming.

Lucas