apt-xapian-index: FTBFS in Mantic and Noble

[Graham Inggs]

As seen in Mantic [1] and Noble [2] test rebuilds:

help2man --name='rebuild the Apt Xapian Index' --section=8 --no-info ./update-apt-xapian-index > update-apt-xapian-index.8
COLUMNS=200 help2man --name='query the Apt Xapian Index' --section=1 --no-info ./axi-cache > axi-cache.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./axi-cache
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:13: override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:8: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

[1] https://people.canonical.com/~ginggs/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20230830-mantic-mantic.html
[2] https://people.canonical.com/~ginggs/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20231215-noble-noble.html

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

This can be fixed by merging 0.54 from Debian unstable

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-xapian-index - 0.54ubuntu1

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apt-xapian-index (0.54ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #2055203). Remaining changes:
    - Prefer native packages over foreign packages.
    - Do not crash if the DB is already locked.
    - Do not modify the DB "in-place" with --update
    - debian/patches/01_axi_cjk_support.patch:
      - Activate the CJK support when indexing the database.
    - debian/patches/02_axi-pkgname-mangled-term.patch:
      - add XPM term that contains a mangled version of the pkgname.
    - plugins/app-install.py:
      - Ignore file not found errors due to a race condition.
    - debian/patches/06_32bit_sizes.patch: Watch out for package sizes that
      don't fit in 32 bits.
    - debian/patches/07_glib_import.patch: Fix the import of GLib and GObject.
    - Build with quilt
  * Dropped changes, no longer applicable:
    - Bump the minimum version for removal of the dbus service
  * debian/patches/python3.12.patch: Python 3.12 compatibility
    (LP: #2055272)

apt-xapian-index (0.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * QA upload.

  * remove undeclared need for python3-six (Closes: #1032332, #1039456)
  * bump to debhelper 13 & some forward compatibility with 14/15
  * migrate from python3-nose to python3-nose2 (Closes: #1018310)
  * fix "unowned files after purge" (Closes: #863959)
  * remove old references to deprecated debian_bundle
  * fix remaining old Python2 "print" (Closes: #968060)
  * provide a native systemd timer matching the cron job
  * fix Py2->3 fallout: "rdetails fails: TypeError:" (Closes: #940987)
  * review with mypy, remove more Python2 hybridation
  * set Rules-Requires-Root: no
  * d/control: remove redundant dh-python

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Remove constraints unnecessary since stretch:
    + Build-Depends-Indep: Drop versioned constraint on bash-completion.

  [ Gioele Barabucci ]
  * d/post{inst,rm},preinst: Remove code for ancient versions

apt-xapian-index (0.53) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.
  * Add the missing build dependency on python3-six. (Closes: #997109)
  * Remove the dead Homepage. (Closes: #974718)

apt-xapian-index (0.52) unstable; urgency=medium

  * QA upload.

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Use set -e rather than passing -e on the shebang-line.

 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:26:43 +0000