Bug#865650: firefox-esr FTBFS: tries to use system nspr but has no build dependency

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:56:45PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:53:19PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Source: firefox-esr
> > Version: 52.2.0esr-1
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid
> > 
> > ...
> > checking for valloc in malloc.h... yes
> > checking for valloc in unistd.h... no
> > checking NSPR selection... system
> > checking for nspr-config... no
> > checking for NSPR - version >= 4.13.1... no
> > configure: error: you do not have NSPR installed or your version is older than 4.13.1.
> > ...
> 
> Whatever created the binnmu borked debian/control, but the build itself
> preprocessed it with the right flags (-DUSE_SYSTEM_NSPR="1"), but that's
> too late for the dependencies installer.
> 
> How does one get a hand on the .diff.xz?

A binNMU always uses the .diff.xz from the original upload.

> Mike

cu
Adrian

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