[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#993861: FTBFS: dpkg-gencontrol: error: parsing package 'zsh-static'

[Vincent Lefevre]

Source: zsh
Version: 5.8-7
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

I've tried to rebuild zsh, and I get the following error:

[...]
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/vinc17/tmp/zsh-5.8'
dh_gencontrol -a -- -VBuilt-Using="libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4),  (= ), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= 2.32-1), "
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: can't parse dependency (= )
dpkg-gencontrol: error: parsing package 'zsh-static' Built-Using field: libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4),  (= ), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= 2.32-1), 
dh_gencontrol: error: dpkg-gencontrol -pzsh-static -ldebian/changelog -Tdebian/zsh-static.substvars -Pdebian/.debhelper/zsh-static/dbgsym-root "-VBuilt-Using=libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4),  (= ), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= 2.32-1), " -UPre-Depends -URecommends -USuggests -UEnhances -UProvides -UEssential -UConflicts -DPriority=optional -UHomepage -UImportant -UBuilt-Using -DAuto-Built-Package=debug-symbols -UProtected -DPackage=zsh-static-dbgsym "-DDepends=zsh-static (= \${binary:Version})" "-DDescription=debug symbols for zsh-static" -DBuild-Ids=fc897dcedd2f17176628f94b638cb9f863c547d2 -DSection=debug -UMulti-Arch -UReplaces -UBreaks returned exit code 25
dh_gencontrol: error: Aborting due to earlier error
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:169: override_dh_gencontrol-arch] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vinc17/tmp/zsh-5.8'
make: *** [debian/rules:56: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -i -b failed

This machine has glibc 2.32-1 and debhelper 13.5.1 (I don't know what
else could be related to this issue).

-- Package-specific info:

Packages which provide vendor completions:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version       Architecture Description
+++-================-=============-============-=======================================================================
ii  bubblewrap       0.5.0-1       amd64        utility for unprivileged chroot and namespace manipulation
ii  curl             7.74.0-1.3+b1 amd64        command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax
ii  mercurial-common 5.9-3         all          easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system (common files)
ii  meson            0.59.1-1      all          high-productivity build system
ii  ninja-build      1.10.1-1      amd64        small build system closest in spirit to Make
ii  pass             1.7.4-1       all          lightweight directory-based password manager
ii  pulseaudio       14.2-2        amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  qpdf             10.1.0-1      amd64        tools for transforming and inspecting PDF files
ii  systemd          247.9-1       amd64        system and service manager
ii  udev             247.9-1       amd64        /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
ii  vlc-bin          3.0.16-1+b2   amd64        binaries from VLC
ii  youtube-dl       2021.06.06-1  all          downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites

The following files were modified:

/etc/systemd/journald.conf
/etc/systemd/system.conf
/etc/systemd/logind.conf

dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/share/zsh/vendor-functions/


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

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