Re: dpkg FTBFS on ports (hurd, x32) with outdated sqv

Samuel Thibault, le lun. 19 mai 2025 10:35:18 +0200, a ecrit:
> Guillem Jover, le lun. 19 mai 2025 10:20:06 +0200, a ecrit:
> > On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:03:02 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, le lun. 19 mai 2025 09:58:07 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > > > If getting a new sqv version built is going to be too hard or time
> > > > > consuming for now, then perhaps removing the sqv binary packages from
> > > > > the port (like it's the state for several other ports) is the quickest
> > > > > fix to be able to build dpkg, as I mentioned in my original mail.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, this is something Aurelien has to do. I don't have any access to
> > > > the Ports FTP servers, so I can't just easily remove packages, unfortunately.
> > > 
> > > On hurd-any at least, apt currently depends on sqv, so removing sqv
> > > would make apt uninstallable.
> > 
> > Yes, as mentioned on my original mail, going this route might require
> > rebuilding apt.
> 
> But better rebuild apt first? Otherwise in the meanwhile the whole
> distrib becomes uninstallable and nothing will build, we cannot recreate
> chroots, etc.
> 
> (and I'd have to see how to do that rebuild, since to avoid sqv
> installed for apt not to pick it up, that'd mean removing the apt
> package in the build chroot...)

I have now rebuilt apt without sqv by removing sqv and apt between
chroot setup and package build. dpkg then built fine on hurd-amd64, it's
pending later today on hurd-i386.

Samuel