Devuan bug report logs - #435
Need to document techniques for building packages depending on libsystemd-dev

Package: libelogind0; Maintainer for libelogind0 is Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>; Source for libelogind0 is src:elogind.

Reported by: andrewbass@gmail.com

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: ceres, chimaera, patch

Merged with 562, 574, 609

Fixed in version 243.8-1

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: 435@bugs.devuan.org, Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov <andrewbass@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [vlc] Unable to build the vlc package as it requires
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:19:11 +0300 Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov 
<andrewbass@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 3.0.8-0+deb10u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I'm trying to build the vlc package from source, and can't do so
> because it lists libsystemd-dev as a build dependency, and I have
> libelogind-dev installed instead:

Andrey,

Thanks.

As you have discovered, building directly on the host system does not 
work if the system uses elogind and the package has a build dependency 
on libsystemd-dev.  However, it will work fine in a build chroot. Try 
using pbuilder and the pbdebuild  command and/or cowbuilder.
There are also other options that should work, but I have not used 
myself, like qemu-builder and sbuild.

Changing all the libsystemd-dev dependencies present in Debian would 
require forking about 200 additional packages and is not feasible at the 
moment.

However, we ought to add this build technique to the release notes so 
that users know that plain debuild will not work on an elogind system if 
the package has libsystemd-dev build dependency.

Let me know if you still have problems.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #435 Need to document techniques for building packages depending on libsystemd-dev

Devuan bug report logs - #435
Need to document techniques for building packages depending on libsystemd-dev