fwts: ftbfs

[Steve Langasek]

The current version of fwts fails to build in the archive test rebuild for lunar:

[...]
dh clean --with autoreconf,dkms
dh: warning: Compatibility levels before 10 are deprecated (level 9 in use)
dh: error: unable to load addon dkms: Can't locate Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/dkms.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Debian::Debhelper::Sequence::dkms module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.36.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36 /usr/share/perl/5.36 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at (eval 11) line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 11) line 1.

make: *** [debian/rules:31: clean] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
[...]

It looks like this may be because the dkms package recently split its debhelper support out into a dh-dkms package, which fwts does not build-depend on.

[Ivan Hu (ivan.hu)]

The dependency will be added while prepare build for lunar, please refer to,

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/fwts-devel/2023-March/013610.html

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 06:30:25AM -0000, Ivan Hu wrote:
> The dependency will be added while prepare build for lunar, please refer
> to,

Lunar releases in a week. This should be uploaded ASAP.

[Ivan Hu (ivan.hu)]

The lunar build fail, because dh-dkms Build-Depend, it will be added by the script mkpackage every time the FWTS is released to fwts stable ppa, https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-fwts-stable/+packages

dh-dkms is only on lunar and kinetic, not on other releases, so currently the dependency is
not added directly to debian/control for all releases in case we don't have
build error in those LTS releases which no dh-dkms package.

[Ivan Hu (ivan.hu)]

file bug for following up,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/fwts/+bug/2020284

set as won't fix

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fwts - 23.01.00-0ubuntu2

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fwts (23.01.00-0ubuntu2) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Fix build failure with newer dkms. LP: #2015805.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Mon, 22 May 2023 05:23:26 +0000