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

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reassign -1 libfprint-dev 1:0.8.2-1
Control: retitle -1 libfprint-dev: pkg-config dependencies are not package dependencies
Control: affects -1 src:fprintd src:fprint-demo

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 07:31:11PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 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:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>  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 ...]
>...

The actual error is snipped:

...
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for FPRINT... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libfprint > 0.1.0) were not met:

Package 'libusb-1.0', required by 'libfprint', not found
...


libfprint-dev lacks dependencies for everything meson adds in Requires.private:

$ grep Requires.private /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libfprint.pc
Requires.private: glib-2.0 >=  2.28, libusb-1.0 >=  0.9.1, nss, pixman-1
$ pkgconf --cflags libfprint
-I/usr/include/libfprint -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0 -I/usr/include/nss -I/usr/include/nspr -I/usr/include/pixman-1 
$


cu
Adrian

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