[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#906975: fprintd: FTBFS in buster/sid (configure fails)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:fprintd
Version: 0.8.0-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in buster but it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep
   dh_update_autotools_config -i
   dh_autoreconf -i
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
configure.ac:10: installing './compile'
configure.ac:2: installing './missing'
doc/Makefile.am:32: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
pam/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_configure

[... snipped ...]

psdir='${docdir}'
runstatedir='${localstatedir}/run'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='/etc'
systemdsystemunitdir=''
target_alias=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "fprintd"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "fprintd"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.8.0"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "fprintd 0.8.0"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PACKAGE "fprintd"
#define VERSION "0.8.0"
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
#define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
#define GETTEXT_PACKAGE "fprintd"
#define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1
#define HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET 1
#define HAVE_GETTEXT 1
#define HAVE_DCGETTEXT 1
#define ENABLE_NLS 1

configure: exit 1
dh_auto_configure: ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-pam --disable-silent-rules --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system --libexecdir=/usr/lib/fprintd/ --enable-gtk-doc returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:16: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:6: build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep subprocess returned exit status 2
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The build was made with "dpkg-buildpackage -A" in my autobuilder.
Most probably, it also fails here in reproducible builds:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/fprintd.html

where you can get a full build log if you need it.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects,
so that this is still visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.