Bug#1057424: libmodule-build-perl: Multi-Arch: foreign makes other packages FTBFS

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:59:12 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> The libnet-cidr-set-perl and libparams-validate-perl packages
> fail to build from source in current unstable.

> This is because libmodule-build-perl was recently marked
> Multi-Arch:foreign, but dpkg-checkbuilddeps does not consider that as
> satisfying :native build dependencies, see #1023438.

Oh dear :/
(I added Multi-Arch:foreign because I wanted to cross-build a
package, and I already had the gut feeling that his might be
dangerous …)
 
> My understanding is that M-A:foreign is probably the right thing
> to do here, but we need to remove the :native build dependency
> in other packages first. Fortunately I see only two in the archive,
> libnet-cidr-set-perl and libparams-validate-perl.
> 
>   grep-dctrl -sPackage,Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -r 'libmodule-build-perl[^,]*:native' /var/lib/apt/lists/*_main_source_Sources

Thanks for this research!
 
> Filing against libmodule-build-perl for now to prevent it from entering
> trixie before the other two are changed. Feel free to reassign or clone
> or whatever if you like.

Both fixed (by removing the :native) and uploaded.

I guess we could upload libmodule-build-perl with versioned Breaks on
the 2 packages (and close this bug with the upload) to get the
migration/upgrade order right?
 

Cheers,
gregor

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