Fails to build (Failing tests) on Debian Unstable

[Boyuan Yang]

I am trying to package gsettings-qt on Debian, but found out that this package would fail to build from source. Some tests will fail.

Full build log (sbuild) attached.

Using source code on bzr 2017-01-10.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

You need to disable tests to build, also there are symbols issues.

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

Sure I could workaround it by disabling tests. However, the best solution is to find out what went wrong and fix the root problem.

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

Seems an duplicate of LP: #1624251. Thus closing the bug.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

@Boyuan It is still failing on artful, but it gives different errors than yours.

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

@khurshid-alam please, post your **full** build log then we can analyze what is going on.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

Fix was proposed here: https://code.launchpad.net/~iceyers/gsettings-qt/fix-link-path

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

But it still fails due to symbol mismatch.

Full build log is here: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/334153567/buildlog_ubuntu-artful-i386.gsettings-qt_0.1+16.04.20160329+201708220715~ubuntu17.10.1_BUILDING.txt.gz

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

I am preparing a proper Debian package.

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/gsettings-qt.git

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

@Boyuan

Yes. I noticed. Thanks for working on this.

But meanwhile can you include a transitional package for qtdeclarative5-gsettings1.0 ?

You see I am trying to compile ubuntu-ui-toolkit for 5.9 on 17.10 (with the help of ubport team) which has hard dependency on qml-module-ubuntu-settings and both have circular dependency on qtdeclarative5-gsettings1.0.

Transitional package should be like this:
https://git.launchpad.net/~khurshid-alam/gsettings-qt/+git/qt-5.9/commit/?id=90717273d22a39ee686708087d89a5f6e5d145a4

Thanks.

[Boyuan Yang (hosiet)]

I am not sure if such transitional package is a good idea. Such transition has long happened several years ago in Debian (and probably Ubuntu).

It might be a better idea to ask upstream to modify their dependency. I will probably add a "Provides:" line later (when the package got ACCEPTED in Debian), which should be enough to handle the situation.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

There are many packages depending on it. See bug #1342031. The idea is to keep them compiling while the upstream change happens gradually. About using transitional package, there are actually quite a few packages which still does that like qtdeclarative5-accounts-plugin, qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin etc.

See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/qtdeclarative-opensource-src_5.9.1-4ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz

which was proposed in artful

But yes, "Provides": will also work I guess.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

The transitional package and/or Provides may be kept as Ubuntu delta, there is no need for that to go into Debian.

The symbols issue is now fixed in artful-proposed.