Re: Strange dependency in mips-build of my package

On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:12:42AM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Dear Debian Mips team,
> 
> I am the maintainer of osspd [1] and I am experiencing strange
> dependencies of my package on mips: As you can see at [2], the package
> depends on "libjson-c2 (>= 0.10)" on mips and on no other architecture.
> osspd does not do anything with json, it's an OSS-PulseAudio sound
> bridge using CUSE to provide /dev/[a]dsp. In the mips build logs,
> dpkg-shlibdeps complains that the package is needlessly linked against
> libjson-c, however one can also see in the buildlog that libjson-c-dev
> is not even installed, and the linker flags for the compiler do not
> contain json at all.
> Do you have any idea why this dependency is added? Could one of you
> perhaps try to build the package and check whether this was some
> one-time bug, or a reproducible issue? I tried to build the package in a
> qemu-user-emulated mips environment, but that does not seem to work
> properly (it has no automagic dependencies whatsoever).
> Currently I am inclined to request a binNMU and hope that this will fix
> the issue.
> 

This was a problem with the toolchain that has been fixed recently. Your
package has been binNMUed, and has the lost the wrong dependency.

Aurelien

-- 
Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
[email protected]                 http://www.aurel32.net