Bug#971181: haskell-gi-glib: FTBFS: Unknown GIR element "docsection" when processing namespace "GLib", aborting.

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: haskell-gi-glib
Version: 2.0.24-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20200926 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> dpkg-buildpackage
> -----------------
> 
> Command: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa -rfakeroot
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package haskell-gi-glib
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.0.24-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi at debian.org>
>  dpkg-source --before-build .
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
>  debian/rules clean
> test -x debian/rules
> dh_clean 
> . /usr/share/haskell-devscripts/Dh_Haskell.sh && \
> clean_recipe
> Running rm -rf dist dist-ghc dist-ghcjs dist-hugs debian/hlibrary.setup Setup.hi Setup.ho Setup.o .\*config\*
> Running rm -f configure-ghc-stamp configure-ghcjs-stamp build-ghc-stamp build-ghcjs-stamp build-hugs-stamp build-haddock-stamp
> Running rm -rf debian/tmp-inst-ghc debian/tmp-inst-ghcjs
> Running rm -f debian/extra-depends-ghc debian/extra-depends-ghcjs
> Running rm -f debian/hlibrary.Makefile
> Running rm -rf debian/dh_haskell_shlibdeps
> Running rm -rf debian/tmp-db
>  dpkg-source -b .
> dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building haskell-gi-glib using existing ./haskell-gi-glib_2.0.24.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
> dpkg-source: info: building haskell-gi-glib in haskell-gi-glib_2.0.24-1.debian.tar.xz
> dpkg-source: info: building haskell-gi-glib in haskell-gi-glib_2.0.24-1.dsc
>  debian/rules binary
> test -x debian/rules
> dh_testroot
> dh_prep 
> dh_installdirs -A 
> mkdir -p "."
> CDBS WARNING:    DEB_DH_STRIP_ARGS is deprecated since 0.4.85
> CDBS WARNING:    DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE is deprecated since 0.4.85
> . /usr/share/haskell-devscripts/Dh_Haskell.sh && \
> make_setup_recipe
> Running ghc --make Setup.hs -o debian/hlibrary.setup
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
> Linking debian/hlibrary.setup ...
> . /usr/share/haskell-devscripts/Dh_Haskell.sh && \
> configure_recipe
> Running debian/hlibrary.setup configure --ghc -v2 --package-db=/var/lib/ghc/package.conf.d --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --builddir=dist-ghc --ghc-option=-optl-Wl\,-z\,relro --haddockdir=/usr/lib/ghc-doc/haddock/gi-glib-2.0.24/ --datasubdir=gi-glib --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/libghc-gi-glib-doc/html/ --enable-library-profiling
> Using Parsec parser
> Unknown GIR element "docsection" when processing namespace "GLib", aborting.
> CallStack (from HasCallStack):
>   error, called at lib/Data/GI/CodeGen/API.hs:201:16 in haskell-gi-0.24.4-GhfHY0VJtr89rHNQ5kPVxX:Data.GI.CodeGen.API
> make: *** [/usr/share/cdbs/1/class/hlibrary.mk:142: configure-ghc-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/09/26/haskell-gi-glib_2.0.24-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.