Bug#837225: xemacs21: FTBFS: Can't locate var_file.pl in @INC

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 09:30:31AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> > amd64.
> 
> FFS, why did this suddenly break and if it's due to the perl include
> transition why did it not get reported in the mass bug filing for this?

My best guess is that we missed it because xemacs21 doesn't build-depend
on perl and we only tested those packages that do.

As perl is transitively build-essential via dpkg-dev -> libdpkg-perl,
packages can get away without an explicit build dependency. Also, some
packages (looks like this includes xemacs21) only need perl-base, which
is Essential:yes so no build dependency is fine.

Apologies for the inconvenience,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org