Bug#1107771: dh-make-perl FTBFS without /var/lib/dpkg/available

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Control: severity -1 serious

Hi,

starting with forky /var/lib/dpkg/available will no longer be available 
on the buildd chroots, so making this RC. The easiest fix would be to 
disable the affected test. Please reach out if you need help with that.

Cheers Jochen

* Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> [2025-06-14 08:16]:
>Source: dh-make-perl
>Version: 0.128
>Severity: normal
>Tags: ftbfs
>
>Hi,
>
>dh-make-perl currently fails to reproduce on reproduce.d.n:
>
>https://reproduce.debian.net/all/#dh-make-perl
>
>This is due to two things:
>
>1. The package assumes that a /var/lib/dpkg/available file exists. This
>is not guaranteed. For example mmdebstrap does not create it. You can
>test that by using sbuild from trixie or bookworm-backports with:
>
>sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare --dist=unstable --no-run-lintian dh-make-perl
>
>2. The package uses /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper from the apt package in
>lib/Debian/AptContents.pm. Note that apt is not essential so the package
>has a missing build dependency on apt (and probably also a missing
>dependency).
>
>Cheers Jochen
>
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: 13.0
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
>Kernel: Linux 6.12.32-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
>Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
>Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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