[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#839466: avahi-sharp: FTBFS: mdoc: Could not find file "/etc/localtime"

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: avahi-sharp
Version: 0.6.19-4.3
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161001 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):
> make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/avahi-sharp'
> /usr/bin/mdassembler --out avahi-sharp-docs --ecma ./en
> Error reading namespace XML for Avahi at ./en/ns-Avahi.xml
> mdoc: Could not find file "/etc/localtime"
> See `mdoc help' for more information.
> Makefile:426: recipe for target 'avahi-sharp-docs.tree' failed
> make[2]: *** [avahi-sharp-docs.tree] Error 1

If the failure looks somehow time/timezone related:
Note that this rebuild was performed without the 'tzdata' package
installed in the chroot. tzdata used be (transitively) part of
build-essential, but it no longer is. If this package requires it to
build, it should be added to build-depends. For the release team's
opinion on this, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836940#185

If the failure looks LSB-related:
similarly to tzdata, lsb-base is not installed in the build chroot.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/10/01/avahi-sharp_0.6.19-4.3_unstable.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.