Bug#942119: libproxy: depends on mono for build-arch; mono not universally present

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi Jeremy,

> Maybe you'd be interested in helping me by digging deeper into this issue?

I can try, but I don’t have experience with Mono either.

> dh-sequence-cli doesn't work in B-D-Indep as I found when I built 0.4.15-6 :

Ouch. Looking at it…

> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libproxy&arch=arm64

… this seems weird. But…

> Is it a debhelper bug that it doesn't look like dh-sequence-* packages
> work in B-D-Indep?

… this is the “clean” target, which is invoked the same no matter
whether building arch, indep or both.

I’d definitely bring this up with the dh7-style debhelper developers.
It appears to auto-detect the sequences used from B-D-*?

One thing you could try is:

ifneq (,$(wildcard /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/cli.pm))
# … stage1 … endif
# you already have the above lines, new is:
else
DH_ARGS += --without cli
# and the endif you already have
endif

And then:

%:
        dh ${DH_ARGS} $@

> (There are definitely a few other ways to work around this issue if
> debhelper won't be changed soon.)

Yeah… the trick is probably finding the right ones and keeping
them working…

Note: you can get a chroot with just the B-D installed on a porterbox,
so you can test this even without uploading.

If you wish, I can also try around on my x32 box (main desktop at work).

bye,
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