[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#995672: cockpit-machines: 253-1 fails to build via apt-src

[Martin Pitt]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo

Hello Friedemann,

Friedemann Schorer [2021-10-03 23:40 +0200]:
> Severity: serious

That feels inflated to me. The package builds fine in official buildds [1], in
upstream CI (which uses pbuilder) and locally in a debian-sid container, and it
is really quite harmless -- the build is more or less "install a bunch of
files". Also, the error message below doesn't even get to the point where it
even attempts to build c-machines, it seems to fail early in apt-src's
name-to-location mapping? So that's certainly not a regression compared to the
testing version.

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cockpit-machines

> Got the latest source packages for cockpit-machines 253-1, unpacked them
> locally via 'dpkg-source -x', made the source known to apt-src ('apt-src
> import cockpit-machines --location cockpit-machines-253') and tried to
> build it.
> Here's the output:
> 
>  ~/build: apt-src list                                                                                 
> i   cockpit-machin 253-1          /home/frschorer/build/cockpit-machines-253   
>  ~/build: apt-src build cockpit-machines                                                              
> E: Not installed
> 
> When I import the sourcetree of cockpit 254-1 from unstable sources,
> too,  and then try to build cockpit-machines apt-src builds the other cockpit packages instead.

I never used apt-src, so I'm trying to reproduce this:

  sudo apt install -y apt-src
  cd /tmp 
  apt-get source cockpit-machines
  apt-src import cockpit-machines --location cockpit-machines-253/
  apt-src build cockpit-machines
  
the latter works:

> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package cockpit-machines
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 253-1
> [...]
> dpkg-deb: building package 'cockpit-machines' in '../cockpit-machines_253-1_all.deb'.
> dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary-only upload (no source included)
> I: Successfully built in /tmp/cockpit-machines-253

Do these exact commands work for you? What did you do differently? How does your
~/.apt-src/status file look like? If you move it away, or try this as a
different user, what result do you get?

Thanks,

Martin