Re: dose-builddepcheck thinks that no package is buildable

[Jessica Clarke]

On 27 Feb 2021, at 18:00, Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

And in fact you haven't included *any* architecture-specific packages,
only all the architecture-independent ones (the ones in binary-all). I
suggest you go read up about how architectures work in Debian.

Jess