Bug#837864: gnome-desktop3: (Future) FTBFS due to undeclared build dependencies

[biebl at debian.org]

Source: gnome-desktop3
Version: 3.21.90-3
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: gtk-doc-tools

Hi,

your package gnome-desktop3 declares a build dependency on gtk-doc-tools.
gtk-doc-tools in turn depends on gnome-common, which in turn pulls in packages
like gettext, intltool or pkg-config.

The dependency on gnome-common was originally added for the GNOME_GTKDOC_CHECK
macro which has been deprecated and replaced by GTK_DOC_CHECK a long time ago.

As gnome-common has been declared deprecated by GNOME upstream [1], we would
like to drop this dependency from gtk-doc-tools.

We did a test of all reverse build dependencies of gtk-doc-tools and gnome-desktop3
failed to build due to now missing build dependencies which are no longer
pulled in by gtk-doc-tools.

A complete build log is available at
https://people.debian.org/~biebl/gtk-doc-tools/gnome-desktop3.log

We have uploaded that gtk-doc-tools package as 1.25-4 to experimental as well,
so you can test your package against this version.

Common build-failures and their fixes:

a/ configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL

   make[1]: intltoolize: Command not found

   → Build-Depends: intltool

b/ ./configure: line 5461: syntax error near unexpected token `yes'
   ./configure: line 5461: `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(yes)'

   ./configure: line 14801: GNOME_CODE_COVERAGE: command not found

   → Build-Depends: gnome-common (for GNOME_* macros)

c/ ./configure: line 17439: syntax error near unexpected token `$WARN_CFLAGS_EXTRA,'
   ./configure: line 17439: `AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS($WARN_CFLAGS_EXTRA, WARN_CFLAGS)'

   ./configure: line 2629: syntax error near unexpected token `git-directory'
   ./configure: line 2629: `AX_IS_RELEASE(git-directory)'

   → Build-Depends: autoconf-archive (for AX_* macros)

d/ ./configure: line 12518: intltool-update: command not found
   checking for intltool >= 0.40.0...  found
   ./configure: error: Your intltool is too old.  You need intltool 0.40.0 or later.

   → Build-Depends: intltool

e/ make[1]: intltoolize: Command not found

   → Build-Depends: intltool

f/ ./autogen.sh calls gnome-autogen.sh

   → Build-Depends: gnome-common


Please add the required build-dependencies to your package so once we upload
gtk-doc-tools_1.25-4 to unstable your package doesn't FTBFS.

Regards,
Michael


[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration