Bug#1068504: mumble-server: wrong path for systemd-sysusers file

[Chris Knadle]

Hello, Michael.

I'm emailing again because I've tried again to follow the suggestions 
that were made for this bug, and it is not working.

On 11/22/24 06:09, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Again, I don't understand why you try to fiddle with debian/rules and 
> variables in .install files (don't do that)
The directive here is to avoid using variables in the .install file.
> You install systemd-dev (including systemd.pc), the build system picks 
> up the paths from systemd.pc via pkgconf and installs the files into 
> the correct paths. All you need to do in .install is reference the now 
> correct paths.

Then the directive here is to reference a "correct path" in the .install 
file, which presumably is in a variable. (?) Or, whatever the "correct 
path" is meant to mean, I don't know what that is and cannot interpret it.

I've again tried adding systemd-dev Build-Depends to the d/control file, 
and making modifications to mumble-server.install in various ways, and 
none of it has helped.

I've done as much as I can. Upstream is not able to help with Debian 
packaging matters, the others I work with on the Mumble Debian package 
don't understand this any better either. What I can do from here is I 
can accept a patch and test it, if one is submitted. Other than that 
I've done what I can.

    -- Chris

Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us

> ]That said, I naively assumed, that the build system in mumble works 
> properly. Apparently it doesn't and the pkgconf integration in version 
> 1.5.517 is broken.
> Seems you would need https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/pull/6100 , 
> specifically commits like 
> https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/pull/6100/commits/fb3f115692db84f5f427755d9cf02cc14e9262fa
> Or you upgrade to a newer upstream version.
>
>
> Michael
>
> Am 21.11.24 um 23:49 schrieb Chris Knadle:
>> Hello Chris, Michael, Stefan.
>>
>> I don't understand how to do what has been requested. I've tried a 
>> number of variations of including systemd-dev as a dependency and 
>> using variables to reference the system sysusers directory, and this 
>> is not working out for me. I've spent more time on this than I'm 
>> comfortable with.
>>
>> So far here's the results from multiple builds:
>>
>> dh_install: error: Cannot resolve variable "${SYSUSERS_DIR}" in 
>> debian/ mumble-server.install (line 6)                                >
>> make: *** [debian/rules:28: binary] Error 25 >
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned 
>> exit status 2
>>
>> dh_install: error: Cannot resolve variable "${sysusers_dir}" in 
>> debian/ mumble-server.install (line 6)
>> make: *** [debian/rules:28: binary] Error 25
>>
>> Trying to source in /usr/share/pkgconfig/systemd.pc within debian/rules:
>> Debian/rules:28: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit 
>> status 2
>>
>> Note: the place the variable needs to be referenced is in 
>> debian/mumble- server.install which is for dh_install to use and I 
>> believe does not accept arbitrary shell code.
>>
>>     -- Chris
>>
>> Chris Knadle
>> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
>>