Unable to install in an armhf chroot

[David Barth]

I am trying to build ubuntu-system-settings in a chroot (from QtC, click chroot, etc.). Among the build dependencies is libqtdbusmock which I am struggling to install, as it wants (by ricochet) to uninstall the rest of the build dependencies of that package.

There is a packaging issue somewhere.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

(click-ubuntu-sdk-14.10-armhf)root@thinkpad:/home/dbarth# apt-get install libqtdbusmock1-dev:armhf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  at-spi2-core colord colord-data dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service libaccountsservice0:armhf libatk-bridge2.0-0:armhf libatk-bridge2.0-0
  libatspi2.0-0:armhf libatspi2.0-0 libboost-system1.55.0 libcairo-gobject2:armhf libcairo-gobject2 libcairo-script-interpreter2:armhf
  libcairo2-dev:armhf libcolord2:armhf libcolord2 libcolorhug2 libdbus-1-dev:armhf libdbus-glib-1-dev:armhf libdconf1 libelfg0 libexif12
  libexpat1-dev:armhf libfontconfig1-dev:armhf libfreetype6-dev:armhf libgck-1-0:armhf libgcr-3-common libgcr-base-3-1:armhf libgd3 libglib2.0-bin
  libglib2.0-dev:armhf libgphoto2-6 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port10 libgtk-3-0:armhf libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgudev-1.0-0:armhf
  libgudev-1.0-0 libgusb2 libharfbuzz-dev:armhf libharfbuzz-gobject0:armhf libharfbuzz-icu0:armhf libice-dev:armhf libieee1284-3 libjson-glib-1.0-0:armhf
  libjson-glib-1.0-common liblcms2-2:armhf liblcms2-2 libltdl7 liblzo2-2:armhf libmirclient8 libmirclientplatform-mesa libmircommon1
  libmirprotobuf-dev:armhf libmirprotobuf0:armhf libnm-glib4:armhf libnm-util2:armhf libpangoxft-1.0-0:armhf libpcre3-dev:armhf libpcrecpp0:armhf
  libpixman-1-dev:armhf libpng12-dev:armhf libpolkit-agent-1-0:armhf libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0:armhf
  libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libprotobuf8 libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libqt5xml5 libsane libsane-common libsm-dev:armhf
  libsystemd-login0:armhf libtimezonemap-data libtimezonemap1:armhf libupower-glib1:armhf libusb-1.0-0 libv4l-0 libv4lconvert0 libvpx1 libwayland-cursor0
  libxcb-shm0-dev:armhf libxcomposite-dev:armhf libxcursor-dev:armhf libxft-dev:armhf libxft2:armhf libxi-dev:armhf libxinerama-dev:armhf
  libxkbcommon-dev:armhf libxml2-dev:armhf libxrandr-dev:armhf libxrender-dev:armhf libxtst-dev:armhf libxtst6:armhf libxtst6 network-manager-dev:armhf
  policykit-1 python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev
  x11proto-xinerama-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-glib-2.0 libgirepository-1.0-1 libqtdbusmock1:armhf python3-dbusmock python3-gi
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0:armhf gir1.2-atk-1.0:armhf gir1.2-atspi-2.0:armhf gir1.2-freedesktop:armhf gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0:armhf gir1.2-glib-2.0:armhf
  gir1.2-gtk-3.0:armhf gir1.2-json-1.0:armhf gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0:armhf gir1.2-pango-1.0:armhf gir1.2-polkit-1.0:armhf gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0:armhf
  libaccountsservice-dev:armhf libatk-bridge2.0-dev:armhf libatk1.0-dev:armhf libatspi2.0-dev:armhf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev:armhf
  libgirepository-1.0-1:armhf libgtk-3-dev:armhf libjson-glib-dev:armhf libnm-glib-dev:armhf libnm-util-dev:armhf libpango1.0-dev:armhf
  libpolkit-gobject-1-dev:armhf libtimezonemap1-dev:armhf libupower-glib-dev:armhf
The following NE...

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Note that that the packages that it wants removed are the very build dependencies i had to install to start building USS.

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

Does this branch help at all? I'm now exactly a packaging whizz..

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

*not

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks, but apparently it's not working. I suspect this is a deep issue
somewhre in packaging, ie work for a packaging wizard. I can wait; i'm
building in an emulator (very slow) as a workaround.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Pete Woods <email address hidden>
wrote:

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[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Hi David, the underlaying problem is that the gir1.2-* packages are all not multi-arch capable. But fortunately there is a solution https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755874 that makes gobject-introspection multi-arch capable and we (Laney and I) plan to get it in before 14.10.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

See also bug #1365010 - but the amount of rdepends makes this unlikely for utopic. But I will test in a PPA to see how it looks and what can be automated.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Fwiw, there is in progress work in ppa:mvo/gir-multiarch but it won't help with armhf as its a normal PPA that only builds i386/amd64.