[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918789: gnustep-back-common: postinst fails on hurd-i386

[Yavor Doganov]

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On Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:39:46 +0200,
Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Package: gnustep-back-common
> Version: 0.26.2-4
> 
> I noticed that gnumail and adun.app have been given back a few hundred
> times because gnustep-back-common's postinst fails on GNU/Hurd.

This is happening again with adun.app.  I think it has something to do
with the intermittent issue of the proc mount missing, but I'm not sure.

The previous failures were with mknfonts.tool which was linked against
gnustep-base/1.25 and 1.25.1-4+b1 was installed in the chroot.  This
version was built without /proc, apparently because it was not
mounted at the time gnustep-base was built.

It then succeeded with mknfonts.tool/0.5-12+b1 which was binNMUed for
gnustep-base/1.26 and 1.26.0-2 was built with /proc.

Now it is failing with gnustep-base/1.26.0-3 which was built again
without /proc.

I also checked back and found out that the last successful build of
adun.app was on 29 Jan 2018 with gnustep-base/1.25.1-1 which was built
with /proc.

Does it make sense or I should put this theory to rest?

> Hopefully, /var/log/gnustep-back-common.log should give some clue.

That still stands.  If investigating is burdensome, my theory would be
either confirmed or ruled out if gnustep-base is given back and
rebuilt with /proc.