Re: Bug#926514: brltty: FTBFS on ia64 because the link check doesn't account for libunwind

Hi Samuel!

On 4/7/19 12:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> # Check that we didn't accidentally link against something outside of
>> # d-i world
>> grep Depends: debian/brltty-udeb/DEBIAN/control | perl -ne 'map {unless (/-udeb/ or /^ ?preseed-common$/) {print $_; exit 1}} split /,/'
>>  libunwind8make: *** [debian/rules:257: brltty-udeb] Error 1
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch subprocess returned exit status 2
>>
>> Adding a "or /libunwind.*/" should be able to fix the problem though. Will test
>> later and attach a tested patch.
> 
> Err, but is the libunwind8 package really available in the d-i image?
> AIUI we'd need a udeb for it, not just ignore the issue.

You are right and sorry for the late response. Indeed, d-i build is asking
for a libunwind-udeb now after I made this change.

I will send in a patch for src:libunwind to create a udeb, although I'm a bit
surprised that we haven't run into this problem before with other d-i components.

Adrian