[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1065189: libguestfs: missing build-dep on libtirpc-dev (and also rpcsvc-proto)

[Aurelien Jarno]

Source: libguestfs
Version: 1:1.52.0-2.1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: debian-glibc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: libtirpc-dev

Dear maintainer,

Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been
moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth
transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added
to the libc6-dev package.

The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1
NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes libguestfs to
FTBFS in sid with:

| checking for CFLocaleCopyPreferredLanguages... no
| checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
| checking whether to use NLS... yes
| checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
| checking if the user specified a default backend... direct
| checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
| checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
| checking for libtirpc... no
| checking for rpc/xdr.h... no
| configure: error: XDR header files are required
|         cd debian/build-1 && tail -v -n \+0 config.log
 
This could be fixed by adding an explicit Build-Depends on libtirpc-dev.
The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given
its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity
of the bug.
 
I also noticed that libguestfs, uses rpcgen, provided by the
rpcsvc-proto during the build process. It is currently a dependency of
the libc6-dev package for the same reason as libnsl-dev, and will be
removed at some point. Therefore please also add an explicit
Build-Depends on rpcsvc-proto.
 
Regards
Aurelien