[SRU] [hardy/gutsy] missing depends on libc6-dev

[Sebastien Estienne]

Binary package hint: varnish

== Bug ==
varnish should depend on libc6-dev.
If libc6-dev is not installed, the daemon can't start.

== Development version ==
This has already been fixed in intrepid onwards by debian.

== How to reproduce? ==
Be sure that libc6-dev is not installed, and install varnish. Trying to start the daemon will result in an error.

== Regression potential ==
None, as this is an added dependency only.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

The dependency is added in version 1.1.2 in intrepid.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

I'll prepare an SRU for this issue.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Sadly the package is made as a native package; as to keep the minimal change it has been kept so.

An updated package for hardy is available here:
http://awen.dk/packages/varnish/hardy/

And for gutsy here:
http://awen.dk/packages/varnish/gutsy/

As to retain the minimal diff, please be sure to run "debuild -S -I/^$/" as the source contains an .svn-directory, which we would like to keep in this case.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Let's not worry about gutsy. It is far away from a bug which matches SRU criteria, and gutsy goes EOL in two months.

For hardy, this bug is way too underdocumented. It doesn't say why exactly varnish fails (output, etc.). libc6-dev is a package providing header files for development, it sounds very wrong to make it a dependency of a system daemon. So what is the *actual* problem with varnish?

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Fair enough to drop gutsy.

The error received when trying to start varnish is the following:
Starting HTTPd accelerator: /usr/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
pclose=256
Internal error: GCC returned 0x0100

The file crti.o is in the libc6-dev package.

Varnish compiles its configuration and then dynamically links to it, which is why it is needed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

OK, fair enough. Please go ahead with the hardy SRU.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

The hardy update is located here:
http://awen.dk/packages/varnish/hardy/

I have no upload rights; do I need to subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors or is this fine?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Andreas, next time please just submit a debdiff. Your source package doesn't use the hardy orig.tar.gz. I'll try and clean it up.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Argh, it doesn't even have one. What a broken package...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sponsored.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Yeah agreed, it is kinda messy in that regard. Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into hardy-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

I can confirm that the uploaded package works. Installing varnish 1.0.3-2 (w/o libc6-dev is installed) and varnish can't be started; updating to the version in hardy-proposed pulls in libc6-dev and starting varnish now works. varnish in itself is tested and works as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package varnish - 1.0.3-2ubuntu1

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varnish (1.0.3-2ubuntu1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add libc6-dev to depends. (LP: #77624)

 -- Andreas Wenning <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:30:32 +0100