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dpkg: ELF package metadata prevents some packages from building

Bug #2069722 reported by Adrien Nader
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dpkg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Some packages do not build anymore, citing a missing environment variable. This can be reproduced by not using dpkg-buildpackage. For example build chaos-marmosets:

```
$ debian/rules binary
[...]
cc: fatal error: environment variable ‘DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_PACKAGE_ARCH’ not defined
```

See original description

Related branches

~aleasto/ubuntu/+source/graphite2:ubuntu/devel
Benjamin Drung (community): Approve
git-ubuntu import: Pending requested
Diff: 26 lines (+7/-0)
2 files modified
debian/changelog (+6/-0)
debian/tests/test (+1/-0)
~bdrung/ubuntu/+source/dpkg:ubuntu/devel
Julian Andres Klode (community): Approve
Adrien Nader (community): Needs Information
git-ubuntu import: Pending requested
Diff: 299 lines (+103/-58)
6 files modified
data/elf-package-metadata-debuginfod.specs (+1/-1)
data/elf-package-metadata.specs (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+34/-20)
man/dpkg-buildflags.pod (+1/-1)
scripts/Dpkg/Vendor/Ubuntu.pm (+66/-8)
scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.pl (+0/-27)
Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
description: updated
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Adrien Nader (adrien) wrote (last edit ):

Based on autopkgtests, at least these packages are impacted: asymptote, golang-logrus, graphite2, gsequencer, mosh, python-cmake-build-extension, rust-libc, seqan3, slt.

Based on my own experience, camitk is also impacted.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Pushed proposed fix to https://code.launchpad.net/~bdrung/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+git/dpkg/+ref/ubuntu/devel

Now the env variable names to not match. I suggest renaming them from DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_* to DEB_BUILD_* instead.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Alessandro Astone (aleasto) wrote :

Is it expected to require such changes to autopkgtests now?

https://code.launchpad.net/~aleasto/ubuntu/+source/graphite2/+git/graphite2/+merge/467970

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.22.6ubuntu14

---------------
dpkg (1.22.6ubuntu14) oracular; urgency=medium

  * Export environment variables DEB_BUILD_OS_RELEASE_ID, DEB_HOST_ARCH,
    DEB_SOURCE, and DEB_VERSION when including buildflags.mk (LP: #2070015)
  * buildflags: document RUSTFLAGS
  * buildflags: Always set RUSTFLAGS
  * buildflags: set origin of env vars for ELF package metadata

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:46:10 +0200

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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