[Pkg-gnutls-maint] success building gnutls 2.4.0-1 debian packages on arm, powerpc, and amd64

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-06-20 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-debian.org at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On Fri 2008-06-20 05:52:37 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Did you see this:
> > http://experimental.debian.net/build.php?pkg=gnutls26

> Nice.  i hadn't seen it, thanks for the pointer. 

> amd64 worries me:

>  http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=gnutls26&ver=2.4.0-1&arch=amd64&stamp=1213832023&file=log&as=raw

> There are a lot of "/dev/null: Permission denied" in there.  that
> sounds like a buildd problem, not a package problem, though.  I didn't
> encounter that at all on my amd64 xen build environment.

Definitely a buildd problem, it fails wghen installing the
build-dependencies. Also 2.3.15-1 which almost identical to 2.4.0
builds fine.

> And the s390 build looks like it's stuck in some sort of tangled
> dependency:

>  http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=gnutls26&ver=2.4.0-1&arch=s390&stamp=1213861114&file=log&as=raw

> >   /usr/bin/sudo dpkg --root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-experimental --purge libgnutls-dev
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgnutls-dev:
> >  libcups2-dev depends on libgnutls-dev.
> > dpkg: error processing libgnutls-dev (--purge):
> >  dependency problems - not removing
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  libgnutls-dev
> > dpkg run to remove packages (libgnutls-dev) failed!
> > Removal of packages failed
> > Source-dependencies not satisfied; skipping gnutls26

> Why would the experimental buildd care about keeping libcups2-dev
> installed?  Is this a quirk of s390, or is the buildd misconfigured?

libcups2-dev is probably not installed on purpose there and it should
not be. I do not expect to have this happen on buildds for sid.

> Unfortunately, i don't have an s390 machine to experiment with
> myself. :(

There is hercules. ;-)

thanks, cu andreas


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