[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#873596: avahi FTCBFS: uninstallable python Build-Depends, fails to figure out what distribution Debian is

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Helmut

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:41:43 +0200 Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> wrote:
> Source: avahi
> Version: 0.6.32-2
> Tags: patch
> User: helmutg at debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap
> 
> avahi fails to cross build from source. Since xmltoman became
> M-A:foreign. avahi's Build-Depends are almost installable. Its python
> dependencies still fail with postinst errors. For cross building, one
> typically wants libpython from the host architecture and the rest from
> the build architecture.

Given that python-all-dev already depends on libpython-all-dev,
shouldn't python-all-dev ensure to pull in the correct version?


After annotating all of those dependencies,
> ./configure fails figuring out the target distribution. After telling it
> that we build for Debian, it cross builds successfully. 

Hm, that would make the package not syncable to Ubuntu and other
derivatives.
I wonder if it would be better to conditionalize on dpkg-vendor
(DEB_VENDOR, /usr/share/dpkg/vendor.mk) instead.

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