Bug#768623: ekiga: Unable to build package from source code.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On 08/11/14 18:10, Marek Bel wrote:
> Package: ekiga
> Version: 4.0.1-5
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
>
> Unable to build package from source code.  Unmet build dependency gnome-icon-
> theme reported, even though gnome-icon-theme is installed.
>
> Actions done:
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep ekiga
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=4" apt-get -b source ekiga
>
>
> Expected result:
>
> file ekiga_4.0.1-5_amd64.deb is generated
>
>
> Actual result:
>
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: gnome-icon-theme
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
> Build command 'cd ekiga-4.0.1 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
> E: Child process failed
>
> note: package gnome-icon-theme is installed on my system
>
>
> Possible workaround:
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep ekiga
> apt-get source ekiga
> cd ekiga-4.0.1/
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=4" dpkg-buildpackage -b -d

A build in a chroot works just fine here. Please attach a full log of the 
failure. This may be a bug in `apt-get -b'.

Emilio