[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#340285: FTBCFS: dpkg-dev b-dep needed

[Erich Schubert]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-6
Severity: wishlist

"Failed to build correctly from source":
Building sysvinit on stable (read: backporting) will result in a package
being built without SELinux even on Linux.

The reason is that stable dpkg-architecture doesn't have DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS,
which is used by the debian/rules file to enabled SELinux support.
(why is it "exported", btw - it's not used outside of the makefile?)

I don't think that upgrading the dpkg-dev build-dependency is the right
way to go - how about just using
  dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS 2>/dev/null || \
  dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM 2>/dev/null || true
(note that the redirection and || true are already present in your
debian/rules file)
which will return "linux" on both unstable and stable

On a related note, could you please downgrade the build-depend version
numbers of libselinux1-dev and libsepol1-dev by stripping the
-1 debian revision at the end? IMHO there is no reason to include it.
And for backports it's best practise to use e.g. 1.14-0.backports.org.1
which wouldn't satisfy the build-dep any more.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 at euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.93-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  initscripts                   2.86.ds1-6 Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libselinux1                   1.26-1     SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     1.8-1      Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  sysv-rc                       2.86.ds1-6 Standard boot mechanism using syml

sysvinit recommends no packages.

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