Bug#897179: FTBFS: A build dependency is lacking: appstream-util (>= 0.7.7)

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 9:29 AM, jean-christophe manciot
<actionmystique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Building with appstream-util version 0.7.7 solves this issue.

Actually, the test failed *because* you had appstream-util installed
and because your copy of appstream-util was old (appstream-util 0.7.7
has been in Testing for a month now).

We can't build with appstream-util because that test requires network
access. I'll go ahead and specifcy --without-appdata-test so that the
build is more consistent regardless of the packages you have
installed.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha