[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#876308: libxml2 FTBFS: rename: "Unknown option: vf"

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2017-09-20 21:42 Helmut Grohne:
>Source: libxml2
>Version: 2.9.4+dfsg1-4
>Severity: serious
>User: helmutg at debian.org
>Usertags: rebootstrap
>
>libxml2 fails to build from source in sid/amd64:
>
>| make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/libxml2-2.9.4+dfsg1/builddir/main/python2.7-dbg'
>| prename -vf 's/(?<!_d)\.so$/_d.so/' debian/tmp-dbg/usr/lib/python2.7/*-packages/*.so
>| Unknown option: vf
>| Usage:
>|     rename [ -h|-m|-V ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] [ -e|-E perlexpr]*|perlexpr
>|     [ files ]
>|
>| debian/rules:99: recipe for target 'doinstall-python2.7-dbg' failed
>| make[1]: *** [doinstall-python2.7-dbg] Error 2
>| make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/libxml2-2.9.4+dfsg1'
>| debian/rules:147: recipe for target 'binary-arch' failed
>| make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
>| dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch gave error exit status 2

Maybe it needs a build-depends on "rename", which was split from the
Perl package.

libxslt needed also to add "rename" as B-D, which I added in a recent
NMU.

I can also prepare an NMU for this package if it helps.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>