[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#1117668: libayatana-appindicator FTCBFS: fails running gtk-doc scanner

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Mar 31 14:32:47 BST 2026


On Mon, 06 Oct 2025 at 15:41:11 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>libayatana-appindicator fails to cross build from source, because it
>fails running the gtk-doc scanner. Fortunately, documentation has been
>separated to a -doc package and therefore running it is not necessary
>during an arch-only build. Just disabling it fixes the cross build. I'm
>attaching a patch for your convenience. It slightly speeds up arch-only
>builds while not affecting the binary output (in a reproducible builds
>sense).

While I was looking at this source package for other reasons, I turned this 
into a merge request: 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-ayatana-team/libayatana-appindicator/-/merge_requests/6

Please consider applying it. I confirm that it does not affect the built 
package contents.

     smcv



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