Bug#831263: libgd-perl: FTBFS: /bin/sh: 1: licensecheck: not found

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: libgd-perl
Version: 2.53-2.1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160714 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  debian/rules build-arch
> test -x debian/rules
> mkdir -p "."
> CDBS WARNING:    DEB_COPYRIGHT_CHECK_IGNORE_REGEX is deprecated since 0.4.133
> find * -type f -regextype posix-extended \
> 	-regex '.*\.(gif|jpeg|png|tif|ttf)' \
> 	-print0 | perl -0 debian/license-miner
> find * -type f -regextype posix-extended \
> 	-regex '.*\.(jpeg-.*|png-.*)' \
> 	-printf 'exif:%p\0' | perl -0 debian/license-miner
> touch debian/stamp-extract-copyright
> CDBS WARNING:  copyright-check disabled - licensecheck (from devscripts package) is missing.
> make: licensecheck: Command not found
> 
> Scanning upstream source for new/changed copyright notices...
> 
> set -e; LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 licensecheck --check '.*' --recursive --copyright --ignore '^((.*/)?[^/]+\.(gif|jpeg|png|tif|ttf|jpeg-.*|png-.*)|debian/(changelog|copyright(|_hints|_newhints)))$' --lines 99999 * | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright_newhints
> /bin/sh: 1: licensecheck: not found
> 0 combinations of copyright and licensing found.
> No new copyright notices found - assuming no news is good news...
> touch debian/stamp-copyright-check
> mkdir -p "debian/upstream-cruft"
> mv "GD/Image.pm" "debian/upstream-cruft/GD/Image.pm";      
> touch debian/stamp-upstream-cruft
> find -type f -name '*.metadata_dump' -delete
> cd . && /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL NOECHO= INSTALLDIRS=vendor
> **UNRECOVERABLE ERROR**
> Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Please install libgd 2.0.28 or higher.
> If you want to try to compile anyway, please rerun this script with the option --ignore_missing_gd.
> make: *** [Makefile] Error 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2016/07/14/libgd-perl_2.53-2.1_unstable_gcc5.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.