[pkg-ggz-maintainers] Bug#591163: Bug#591163: ggz-kde-client: FTBFS: Nonexistent build-dependency: libavahi-compat-howl-dev

[Michael Biebl]

On 02.08.2010 00:16, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 01.08.2010 19:32, Josef Spillner wrote:
>> Apparently, avahi  (0.6.27-1) has introduced this issue by an incomplete check 
>> of reverse dependencies in Debian:
>>      Development of the original Howl implementation has been discontinued and
>>      there are no more reverse dependencies in the Debian archive since lenny.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I understand the reason to drop Howl and will update the 
>> packaging metadata accordingly in the pkg-ggz SVN.
> 
> Sorry, it seems I missed that indeed.
> Probably because I checked for binary dependencies only, so the build dep
> slipped through. I double-checked now, and thankfully ggz-kde-client is the only
> package affected by this.
> 
> As Josef agreed to update the package, I will keep the Howl compat package removed.

As it seems, ggz-kde-client did build-depend on libavahi-compat-howl-dev, but
due to the configure check being broken, Zeroconf was not enabled (this is from
the buildd log):

> checking for sw_discovery_init in -lhowl... yes
> checking howl/howl_config.h usability... no
> checking howl/howl_config.h presence... no
> checking for howl/howl_config.h... no
> configure: WARNING: Zeroconf diabled, libhowl (headers) not found.

So, if nobody complained about missing Zeroconf support until now, the simplest
fix is to just drop the libavahi-compat-howl-dev build-dep.

Cheers,
Michael



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