Re: dose-builddepcheck thinks that no package is buildable

[Jessica Clarke]

On 27 Feb 2021, at 17:56, Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> Was searching what are the missing package needed for sbcl to be built (sbcl 
> is a Common Lisp compiler).
> 
> ~/.config/dpkg/buildflags.conf
> 
> paul@binou:~$ dose-builddebcheck -v --deb-native-arch=i386 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian-ports_dists_sid_main_binary-all_Packages
>  /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources 
> (I)Dose_deb: Parsing Sources file 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources...
> (I)Dose_common: total packages 32570
> (I)Dose_deb: Parsing Packages file 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian-ports_dists_sid_main_binary-all_Packages...
> (I)Dose_common: total packages 30324
> output-version: 1.2
> native-architecture: i386
> host-architecture: i386
> binary-packages: 62894
> source-packages: 32570
> broken-packages: 32570
> paul@binou:~$ 
> 
> The reason:
> output-version: 1.2
> native-architecture: i386
> host-architecture: i386
> report:
> -
>  package: 0ad
>  version: 0.0.23.1-5
>  architecture: amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,kfreebsd-amd64,kfreebsd-i386
>  type: src
>  status: broken
>  reasons:
>   -
>    missing:
>     pkg:
>      package: init-system-helpers
>      version: 1.60
>      architecture: all
>      essential: true
>      unsat-dependency: perl-base:i386 (>= 5.20.1-3)
> 
> They all miss: init-system-helpers of perl-base:i386
> 
> apt install perl-base shows:
> perl-base is already at the newest version (5.32.1-3)
> 
> Obviously something is wrong, because lot of packages are installable.
> Maybe because debian-ports not having source repository... so I had to edit 
> in sources.list to use debian rather than debian-ports?
> 
> Sad it is not working, would be an informative report.

You're asking about i386 but using a debian-ports mirror. Don't do
that. Either ask about an architecture provided by debian-ports or
switch to using the main debian archive, but don't mix and match.

Jess