Bug#761618: FTCBFS due to missing Build-Depends: libopts25-dev

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-09-15 Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> wrote:
> Package: src:gnutls28
> Version: 3.3.7-2
> User: helmutg at debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap

> Currently, gnutls28 FTCBFS for any architecture failing to find libopts
> in configure. Looking closer, libopts25-dev is really not installed for
> the host architecture. It is only available for the build architecture.
> The build architecture instance was installed due to autogen depending
> on it.

> Even though it is obvious that something is broken, it is not that
> obvious what needs to be fixed. I see the following options:

>  * Add libopts25-dev to Build-Depends for gnutls28. In this case we do
>    not consider libopts25-dev an API of autogen even though it depends
>    on it. There are in total 13 source packages that Build-Depend on
>    autogen and half of them are gcc, so the fallout should be
>    manageable.
[...]

Hello,

Given that only two binary packages end up linking against libopts25
(gnutls-bin and ntp) I think there is a slightly stronger case for this
way of looking at the problem. It is also trivial to fix it this way.

cu Andreas
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