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

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: tags -1 patch

On 2021-09-07 14:15:08 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> At https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=zsh&arch=amd64&ver=5.8-7&stamp=1630542289&raw=0
> (successful build on 2021-09-02), I can see:
> 
> dh_gencontrol -a -- -VBuilt-Using="libcap2 (= 1:2.44-1), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4), ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4), pcre3 (= 2:8.39-13), glibc (= 2.31-17), "
> 
> Notice the duplicate "ncurses (= 6.2+20201114-4)". On my machine, the
> second one is replaced by " (= )", which yields the failure.
> 
> Moreover, debian/rules has
> 
> BUILT_USING=$(shell for pkg in libcap-dev libncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev libpcre3-dev libc-dev-bin; do dpkg-query -f '$${status}' -W $$pkg 2>&1 | grep -Fq installed && dpkg-query -f '$${source:Package} (= $${source:Version}), ' -W $$pkg; done)
> 
> while on my machine, libncursesw5-dev is not installed and is provided
> by libncurses-dev.

I suppose that libncursesw5-dev should be replaced by libncurses-dev
in every file under the debian directory, and that the resulting
duplicates should be removed. I've attached the corresponding patch,
which solves the FTBFS issue for me.

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diff -aurd zsh-5.8-a/debian/control zsh-5.8-b/debian/control
--- zsh-5.8-a/debian/control	2021-08-25 00:25:11.000000000 +0000
+++ zsh-5.8-b/debian/control	2021-09-07 12:17:57.521181547 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
                libcap-dev [linux-any],
                libelf-dev,
                libgdbm-dev,
-               libncursesw5-dev,
+               libncurses-dev,
                libpcre3-dev
 Build-Depends-Indep: cm-super-minimal,
                      ghostscript,
diff -aurd zsh-5.8-a/debian/rules zsh-5.8-b/debian/rules
--- zsh-5.8-a/debian/rules	2021-08-24 23:44:06.000000000 +0000
+++ zsh-5.8-b/debian/rules	2021-09-07 12:16:59.009746260 +0000
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 # resulting syntax might be invalid. Needed for packages which are
 # also provided by other packages like libncurses-dev and
 # libncursesw5-dev which both fulfil the according build-dependency.
-BUILT_USING=$(shell for pkg in libcap-dev libncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev libpcre3-dev libc-dev-bin; do dpkg-query -f '$${status}' -W $$pkg 2>&1 | grep -Fq installed && dpkg-query -f '$${source:Package} (= $${source:Version}), ' -W $$pkg; done)
+BUILT_USING=$(shell for pkg in libcap-dev libncurses-dev libpcre3-dev libc-dev-bin; do dpkg-query -f '$${status}' -W $$pkg 2>&1 | grep -Fq installed && dpkg-query -f '$${source:Package} (= $${source:Version}), ' -W $$pkg; done)
 
 %:
 	dh $@
diff -aurd zsh-5.8-a/debian/tests/control zsh-5.8-b/debian/tests/control
--- zsh-5.8-a/debian/tests/control	2021-08-24 23:50:41.000000000 +0000
+++ zsh-5.8-b/debian/tests/control	2021-09-07 12:17:38.993360527 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Depends: libcap-dev [linux-any],
          libelf-dev,
          libgdbm-dev,
-         libncursesw5-dev,
+         libncurses-dev,
          libpcre3-dev,
          zsh,
          zsh-dev