[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#939578: fontforge: FTBFS: There is no package matching [libspiro1-dev] and noone provides it

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Source: fontforge
Version: 1:20170731~dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs sid bullseye
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

fontforge no longer builds due the spiro transition:
| d-shlibmove --commit \
|   --devunversioned \
|   --exclude-la \
|   --extralib debian/tmp/x/usr/lib/libgioftp.so \
|   --extralib debian/tmp/x/usr/lib/libgunicode.so \
|   --extralib debian/tmp/x/usr/lib/libgutils.so \
|   --movedev "debian/tmp/x/usr/include/*" usr/include/ \
|   --movedev "debian/tmp/x/usr/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc" usr/lib/pkgconfig \
|   --override s/libfontforge2-dev/libfontforge-dev/ \
|   debian/tmp/x/usr/lib/libfontforge.so
| Library package automatic movement utility
|  --> libfontforge-dev package from same source package.
|  --> libfreetype6-dev package exists.
|  --> libgif-dev package exists.
|  --> libglib2.0-dev package exists.
|  --> libjpeg-dev package exists.
|  --> libltdl7-dev is provided by a package.
|  --> libpng-dev package exists.
|  --> libpython-dev package exists.
|  --> libreadline-dev package exists.
| devlibs error: There is no package matching [libspiro1-dev] and noone provides it, please report bug to d-shlibs maintainer
|  --> libtiff5-dev package exists.
|  --> libuninameslist-dev package exists.
|  --> libxml2-dev package exists.
|  --> zlib1g-dev package exists.
| make: *** [debian/rules:63: debian/stamp-local-shlibs-libfontforge] Error 1
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch subprocess returned exit status 2

See
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=fontforge&arch=amd64&ver=1%3A20170731%7Edfsg-1%2Bb2&stamp=1567253536&raw=0
for the full log.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher