Bug#1065107: exim4: FTBFS: missing build-dep on libnsl-dev

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-02-29 Aurelien Jarno <aurel32 at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: exim4
> Version: 4.97-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> User: debian-glibc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: libnsl-dev

> Dear maintainer,

> Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been
> moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth
> transition, a libnsl-dev has been added to the libc6-dev package.

> This dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1 NMU, as
> part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes exim4 to FTBFS in sid
> with:
[...]
> This could be fixed by adding an explicit Build-Depends on libnsl-dev.
> The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given
> its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity
> of the bug.

Thanks, noted. I cannot fix it now though since sid seems to be broken
due to t64 with regards to pam, there is back and forth of package
renames and util-linux 2.39.3-6.1 pre-depends on both libpam0g and
libpam0t64.

cu Andreas