FTBFS: POD document had syntax errors at usrbinpod2man line 71

[Andreas Moog]

Hi there,

the package xvattr fails to build in a current Ubuntu rebuild test on i386.

(Hopefully) Relevant part of the log:
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checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.24.22)
checking for XvQueryExtension in -lXv... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes
checking for X11/extensions/Xvlib.h... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating xvattr.pod
config.status: executing depfiles commands
touch configure-stamp
dh_testdir
/usr/bin/make
make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/xvattr-1.3'
i686-linux-gnu-gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"xvattr\" -DVERSION=\"1.3\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_GETOPT_LONG=1 -DHAVE_LIBXV=1 -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_XLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XVLIB_H=1 -I. -g -O2 -MT xvattr.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/xvattr.Tpo -c -o xvattr.o xvattr.c
mv -f .deps/xvattr.Tpo .deps/xvattr.Po
i686-linux-gnu-gcc -g -O2 -o xvattr xvattr.o -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXv
i686-linux-gnu-gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"xvattr\" -DVERSION=\"1.3\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_GETOPT_LONG=1 -DHAVE_LIBXV=1 -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_XLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_X11_EXTENSIONS_XVLIB_H=1 -I. -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -g -O2 -MT gxvattr-gxvattr.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/gxvattr-gxvattr.Tpo -c -o gxvattr-gxvattr.o `test -f 'gxvattr.c' || echo './'`gxvattr.c
gxvattr.c: In function 'main':
gxvattr.c:259:11: warning: passing argument 1 of 'set_color_widget' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
           set_color_widget(manipulator, cur_val);
           ^
gxvattr.c:87:13: note: expected 'struct GtkObject *' but argument is of type 'struct GtkWidget *'
 static void set_color_widget (GtkObject *color_selection, long value)
             ^
gxvattr.c:272:4: warning: passing argument 1 of 'set_bool_widget' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
    set_bool_widget(manipulator, cur_val);
    ^
gxvattr.c:117:13: note: expected 'struct GtkObject *' but argument is of type 'struct GtkWidget *'
 static void set_bool_widget (GtkObject *toggle, long value)
             ^
mv -f .deps/gxvattr-gxvattr.Tpo .deps/gxvattr-gxvattr.Po
i686-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -g -O2 -o gxvattr gxvattr-gxvattr.o -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfreetype -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXv
pod2man --center='User Commands' xvattr.pod >xvattr.1
xvattr.pod around line 106: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'Björn'. Assuming ISO8859-1
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 71.
make[1]: *** [xvattr.1] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/xvattr-1.3'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20140205-0821
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]

A full buildlog is available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20140127/+build/5525460/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-i386.xvattr_1.3-0.6ubuntu1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

Thanks for your time!

Regards,
  Andreas

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[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

It looks like package has been removed in Debian.

Should we do the same for Ubuntu?

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

It was never in Debian. It came from the infamous import of deb-multimedia. Not sure if it's worth keeping. I found a patch on AUR for this FTBFS, so we can consider using that or just killing this package off.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This is fixed in the current Ubuntu development release.