[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1119746: linux-gpib-user: FTBFS: openjade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E option

[Matthias Geiger]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:28:45 +0000 Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:linux-gpib-user
> Version: 4.3.7-3
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs forky sid
> 
> Dear maintainer:
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.
> 
> Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
> relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
> is available here:
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202510/
> 
> About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
> using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.
> 
> If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
> am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
> fully reproducible.
> 
> If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
> reassign and add an affects on src:linux-gpib-user, so that this is still
> visible in the BTS web page for this package.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>  debian/rules clean
> dh clean
>    debian/rules execute_after_dh_auto_clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=pybuild --sourcedirectory=language/python
> touch ChangeLog
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
>    dh_clean
>  debian/rules binary
> dh binary
>    dh_update_autotools_config
>    dh_autoreconf
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
> libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
> 
> [... snipped ...]
> 
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:426:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:429:5:E: element "ROW" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:430:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:431:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:437:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:438:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:440:5:E: element "ROW" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:441:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:442:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:446:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:447:7:E: element "ENTRY" undefined
> /usr/bin/osx:./linux-gpib.sgml:449:5:E: element "ROW" undefined
>
I suspect something in the build-depends did change, as -2 and -1 built 
fine. I can repro this locally; strangely, nothing in /usr/bin/osx 
changed, so I'll have to check where the build fell apart.

best,

werdahias